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Columbia University Faculty Seeking Signatures From Columbia Colleagues to Dissent from CUFAC Statement
200 71 Profs. Judith Jacobson and Awi Federgruen, Columbia University

Promoting Academic Integrity and Honest Debate Columbia University Faculty Seeking Signatures to Dissent from CUFAC Statement by November 12, 2007… November 12, 2007 Here is the statement for which Columbia Professors Judith Jacobson and Awi Federgruen are seeking signatures ASAP from Columbia Faculty. Please encourage your colleagues to read it and to email their endorsements…

Editorial: Bollinger’s Backbone
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http://www.nysun.com/article/66281 It speaks well of the Columbia president, Lee Bollinger, that a group of left-wing or anti-Israel faculty members is now petitioning against him. In a letter obtained by The New York Sun ‘s Annie Karni, 70 Columbia faculty members speak of a “crisis of confidence” in Mr. Bollinger, faulting him for his harsh introduction…

Columbia University Faculty Action Committee Statement of Concern
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http://www.nysun.com/article/66314 We speak for a growing number of faculty members at Columbia University who believe that President Bollinger has failed to make a vigorous defense of the core principles on which the university is founded, especially academic freedom. Academic freedom lies at the heart of what we do as faculty members: teach, generate new knowledge,…

Give Up ‘Right of Return,’ Nusseibeh Tells Fellow Palestinians
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http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13447&Itemid=86 MONTREAL – For Sari Nusseibeh, true peace between his own people and Israel won’t come from canny manoeuvres at the negotiating table. Ultimately, the Palestinian philosopher and humanist argued in a recent lecture at McGill University, peace will result from the mutual realization and acceptance of the fact that neither side will get everything…