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2001-10-04 Home Front
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CUNY trustees condemn faculty hate speech. Really.
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NY Post
City University trustees are horrified by a forum in which professors blamed America for the attack on the World Trade Center - and they're drafting a resolution condemning faculty hate speech. "These people should be ashamed of themselves," CUNY trustee Jeffrey Wiesenfeld told me yesterday. | "While recognizing the professors' right to be stupid, their opinions render ill repute to the university." |
"While recognizing [the professors'] right to be stupid, their opinions render ill repute to the university. They're fortunate it's not up to me. I would consider that behavior seditious at this time."
As you read here yesterday, City College's radical professors union - the Professional Staff Congress Forum - sponsored an event on Tuesday titled "Threats of War, Challenges to Peace." It was a two-hour, hard-core America-bashing festival. The terrorist attack on the trade center was referred to by faculty as "the incident." Terrorists were described as freedom fighters. One anthropology professor, M.A. Samad-Matias, framed the atrocity as an understandable Islamic response to Western imperialism.
Wiesenfeld said he will introduce a resolution condemning the event at a meeting of CUNY trustees this month. "We would expect the board will vote unanimously in favor" of the resolution, said trustee John Calandra. Such resolutions - the last one condemned the anti-Semitic ravings of Prof. Leonard Jeffries - allow trustees to send a message to taxpayers who pay the ranting professors' salaries.
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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2001-10-04 ||
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