Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Mideast Tensions Are Getting Personal on Campus at Columbia: It has led one professor, who denounces the whole matter as a "witch hunt," to abandon one of his signature courses. It has prompted a faculty member in the medical school, not at all directly involved, to send an e-mail message to an implicated professor that he is a "pathetic typical Arab liar" and should leave the country. There have been death threats. Students have been labeled as "ignorant" and "liars" by teachers. Perhaps it is not surprising that one professor caught in the whirlpool came down with shingles.
Some of My Best Friends Are Mercurians: "I would stop reading the New York Review of Books"
Some of My Best Friends Are Mercurians: "I would stop reading the New York Review of Books"
