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A university can never be more certain that it is properly functioning than when its faculty is accused of subversion, because then some entrenched idea is under assault and some traditional holder of power feels the tempest of new and renewing ideas.
- Robert G. Golodny, "Reflections on the Contemporary Problems of Liberal Education," University [of Pittsburgh] Times, December 10, 1970
THIS ISSUE OF SCIENCE & SOCIETY IS DEDICATED to the memory of Robert G. Colodny (1915-1997), one of our former editors, who, before beginning his academic career, volunteered to fight against fascism in that tragic prelude to World War II usually called the Spanish Civil War.1 In his posthumous memoir of Spain, published in the journal of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (Colodny, 1997), Colodny wrote of seeing André Malraux's inspiring 1937 description of the formation of the International Brigades to aid the Spanish Republic against the fascist uprising there and the support of the rightists by Hitler's and Mussolini's regimes. A dedicated anti-fascist, he then decided "that is where I am going to go" (Colodny, 1997). Momentarily enriched by earnings in a poker game, Colodny traveled from California to Chicago to sign up, and on to New York to sail on the Ile de France. From then, his story is broadly typical of the American volunteers: mobilized in Paris with others of diverse nationalities, traveling to the Spanish border disguised as a soccer fan, illegally crossing the Pyrenees by night, training briefly and then facing combat on the Jarama front. Severely wounded at Brunete in July 1987, Colodny received medical care at several hospitals, and - much to the surprise of his physicians - did not then die. Instead he was sent back into combat at Teruel, where in winter temperatures that reached twenty degrees below zero, he had a relapse. His military combat in Spain ended, he was sent to Barcelona and placed on a train to Paris, from where he returned to the United States. Later, recovered from his wounds, speaking at a Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade meeting in Chicago, Colodny told of his experiences in Spain and received warm acclaim from the audience. He realized that in delivering this talk he was doing "what professors do....