This ad, placed days before Regan’s second presidential election, is included because of the presence of CUNY professors that have signed on, which account for about half of the list of “initiators.”

They decry the fact that funding for the humanities and social sciences had been “cut to the bone” in the first four years of the administration. It gives a distinct insight into the public image of the humanities faculty in particular at CUNY, and how they were involved in political activities.

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