Campus News & Climate

Paris Book Burning

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120527435282828463.html Then, in Paris, they came for the novelists. One by one, from Morocco to Saudi Arabia to Iran, Muslim governments have signed up for the boycott of the international book fair opening Friday in the French capital. The reason?…

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Senate Judiciary Committee Recognizes UC Irvine Anti-Semitism

http://www.redcounty.com/rccampuswatch/2008/03/senate-judiciary-committee-rec/ In an interesting turn of events, the US Senate Judiciary Committee has now decided to weigh in on the issue of antisemitism at UC Irvine. In a letter to the US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (signed only by…

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Edinburgh U. Cancels Prosor’s Talk

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204546423678&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull The University of Edinburgh called off a lecture by Israeli Ambassador to Great Britain Ron Prosor scheduled for Thursday, citing logistical reasons while distancing itself from a claim by a pro-Palestinian fringe group that a planned protest had caused…

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Confusion at Columbia

http://sandbox.blog-city.com/confusion_at_columbia.htm On Friday, the Columbia Spectator ran an article by its “news staff” under the headline: “Yiddish Prof Named Acting Director of Israel Institute After False Media Speculation.” The Yiddish professor is Jeremy Dauber, and the institute is the Institute…

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Noura Ismail and Sarah Karlin: A War-Torn Education

http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2008/02/14/News/A.WarTorn.Education-3209944.shtml At Sapir College, exams are consistently interrupted by sirens warning students that a Kassam rocket has been launched. Once the sirens go off, the students have approximately 15 seconds to exit the test area and seek shelter. This scenario…

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Senators Question Anti-Semitism Decision

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107387.html Three U.S. senators questioned a federal decision on alleged anti-Semitism at the University of California, Irvine. Sens. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) wrote late last month to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings to express…

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Uni Wien gedenkt des März 1938

http://www.wienerzeitung.at/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=3936&Alias=wzo&cob=332476 Unrühmliches Bild der Universität Wien 1938. Foto: univie/Bildarchiv Zeitgeschichte Zeithistorikerteam präsentiert nach jahrelanger Arbeit Buch. Wien. (chk) Walter Sokel, 1917 in Wien geboren, war zu Beginn des Jahres 1938 noch ein engagierter Student der Romanistik und Kunstgeschichte. Schon als…

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Protests Crossed the Line: George

http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/336161 McMaster University president Peter George says demonstrators who waved provocative banners and shouted pro-Palestinian slogans at the end of a campus free-speech forum last Friday crossed the boundaries of academic freedom. The demonstration started before the audience had left…

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