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CUNY trustees condemn faculty hate speech. Really.
2001-10-04
  • 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.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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