I happened to catch a C-SPAN hour with YAF (used to be Young Americans for Freedom, but now apparently transmogrified into Young Americas Foundation:...
It looks as though Mohamed Yousry is a scapegoat who is being imprisoned mainly on the basis of evidence from a dissertation which his advisors at NYU...
... There are several interesting aspects to this case, but if I understand this conviction correctly, it is for violating a Special Administrative Measure...
Good to learn of you -- and relieved not to be condemned for supporting terrorists, which is the increasingly common move these days, alas. As a legal...
[Khalid Amayreh is an advisor to the Student Concerns list. As his report indicates here, he is an American trained Palestinian journalist living near Hebron....
[When I explored the criteria for employment by Columbia University recently, only criminal records of porters were requested in their application forms. Ed...
I spent the subway trip last night back to Manhattan reading our two Brooklyn College student paper responses to the attacks on two of our faculty members over...
Personally I find the 'right versus left' 'liberal versus conservative' games playing featured by some of our media terribly misleading. There are some issues...
Ed--I enjoyed your posts. I am intrigued that there are McCarthy types on campus as I thought McCarthy had been discredited. Who are they and what are their...
I am trained in theology and still have many friends from my student days who are rabbis, priests and nuns (or ex ones) and Protestant clergy who say the same...
[From a recent CUNY Forum posting. Ed Kent] ... Circuit decision that could be used to severely restrict student speech. In Hosty, the court determined that a...
I could not care less what the political perspectives (ideological) of a particular faculty member happen to be. One of my most stimulating courses at Yale...
I detect a double standard on your part, Ed. On the one hand you object to Buckley's, Murdoch's and Horowitz's calling various friends of yours names at Yale...
By all reports Johnson is a nasty SOB and I assume that he is angling for things far beyond Brooklyn where I hope he heads soon. I gave but one example of his...
Ahem. Let's look at these two statements. ... <snip> ... My challenge here is one of context. K.C. Johnson's context in this is not clear. I assume he...
[I am sorry to see that Michael Levin has persisted with his blatant racism, which, as a fellow philosopher, I find to be despicable. We were briefly...
Candace de Russy suggested that I circulate my blog post "Roger Bowen and the Banality of Academic Ethics" on www.democracy-project.com about AAUP general...
"What Institutional Autonomy? Why Academic Freedom Is Imperiled and What to Do About It" ***Friday, November 11, 2005, 9:30 - 1:00 at The John Jay College of...
[I am glad to see CUNY officially on board here. There have been some echoes of Joseph McCarthyism in the air of late with Muslims and "liberals" being...
Add many others including Ron McGuire, CCNY grad, who does so much pro bono work on behalf of CUNY faculty and students to those whom the CUNY Faculty Senate...
[Unhappily I know some of the characters involved in these suspensions (all too well) and they tend to be politically biased in their control impulses of...
I don't think K.C. Johnson would mind my reporting that we have had a cordial exchange of ideas by email following upon my apology for having called him an SOB...
[Posted to CUNY Forum by Bill Crain, Chr, CCNY faculty governing body. From all that I know of this case, it is a travesty of justice. Ed Kent] At noon...
... Subject: Federal Appeals Court To Hear CUNY First Amendment Lawsuit Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 22:45:22 -0500 From: Ronald B. McGuire <ronmcguire@...> To:...
... Subject: Faculty Colloquium on Academic Freedom, November 10 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 16:50:03 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Viscusi, Wolfe Institute for the...
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