SPME is delighted to welcome these 40 new donors to its honor roll of contributors. Please add your name by going to spme.org/donation.html Please don’t delay, do it today. Anonymous(1) Anonymous (1)Honoring The Excellent Contributions of Prof. Judith Jacobson Arthur…
read moreA small leadership group of the new British University and Colleges Union has recommended a boycott of Israeli universities and scholars by British universities. This proposed boycott represents a direct assault on a core principle of academic freedom. University scholars…
read moreYesterday a letter meant for SPME Members in the Philadelphia area at Drexel, Villanova, University of Pennsylvania, Temple and other local Universities was accidently sent out to everyone. We received a good bit of feedback and several people going off…
read moresubmitted by Berel Dov Lerner, Western Galilee College, Akko, Israel Jerusalem, November 26, 2006 — The First Middle East Symposium on DentalMedicine – a breakthrough in cooperation between Israeli and Palestinianacademics – will be held tomorrow, Nov. 27, in Jerusalem…
read more“The Overlooked Obligation to Fight Terror Under International Law” will be the subject of a lecture and discussion with Professor Abraham “Avi” Bell when he speaks at the University at Buffalo Law School on Thursday, Nov. 30. The event, which…
read moreIsrael’s oldest English-language newspaper put it bluntly: “The president of one of the leading universities in the United States last week posed for photographs with a student dressed as a suicide bomber, The Jerusalem Post has learned.” The New York…
read moreTo SPME: The issue of what should happen following the publication of the revolting photo of University of Pennsylvania Amy Gutmann posed and smiling next to a student dressed as a suicide bomber also holding a toy machine gun is…
read morehttp://www.theaugea nstables. com/2006/ 11/07/amy- gutmanns- halloween- fadihah-how- to-recover- from-a-public- humiliation On October 31, 2006, President Amy Gutmann held her annual Halloween party triggering an image and series of events that demonstrates much of what ails academia these days. While there…
read moreOn October 31, 2006, President Amy Gutmann held her annual Halloween party. The following events occurred: **President Gutmann was allowing herself to have pictures taken with student guests at the party one by one. **President Gutmann let her picture be…
read moreUniversity of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann has at least this consolation: It’s not a video on YouTube. Three days after Halloween, the Penn president’s annual costume party lived on yesterday, courtesy of the Internet and student Saad Saadi, whose photograph…
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