Money certainly is in abundance at the Woodrow Wilson School. Graduate students get an automatic tuition-plus-$2000 scholarship; if a student is married and has a child, he resceives another $1200; if his wife works, and earns, say, $4000 a year, that's $7200 annually. Hardly in keeping with the struggling student image.

Nor does the money stop there. Summer travel-study groups -- this year's and last's went to Latin America -- are fully subsidized. Graduate students who don't participate in the travel groups take summer jobs in some area of public service, and if their salaries are in any way inadequate, the school will supplement them. Perhaps the most astonishing example of how the Woodrow Wilson School treats money is its pre-paid interview system. Applicants can zip down to Princeton to look the school over for a few days, and the school picks up the tab. That kind of money is obviously an attraction by itself: students vaguely interested in government can sooner see spending two lavish, aimless years studying politics than three rough, possibly costly, years studying law.

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The one group not drawn to the Woodrow Wilson School has been the radicals. There are a few students like Burlingham in the undergraduate branch, but virtually none higher up. So the argument put forth by some critics of the school--that it converts its students into establishment thinkers to begin with.

Richard Ullman, associate professor of Politics and International Affairs, argues, however, that "if anything," the school produces "anti-establishment types." Some students learn to dislike the establishment, Ullman suggests, after closely studying it. "These are establishment types only in that they now know what the establishment is."

But even among those who like the school, there are many who disagree with Ullman on this point. "The school made me more conservative," concedes Law Student Schreiberg. "We came out of it ready to go into government without any naive ideas about what we could accomplish."

This is the Woodrow Wilson School's goal: to shed its students of an innocence about practical politics. What the school's critics ask is whether universities should be getting rid of naive ideas--or promoting them