[rmlew]

More political orthodoxy in the name of diversity. Columbia needs an academic freedom policy and Bollinger must go.
For more on Columbia, please see Campus Watch's Archive on Bir Zeit on the Hudson.

[rmlew]

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[rmlew]

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[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[familyop]

"2.) Jean Howard's record isn't exactly reassuring. Howard, Columbia's diversity vice provost, has been in the news previously. She signed the petition demanding that Columbia divest from companies doing business in Israel..."

We get what we ask for. If we continue recruiting for careers based on social politics, other countries will get our best defense engineers. And we no longer need universities for higher education.

[dervish]

Yes, Bollinger must go.

I think Summers is heads and heels better than Bollinger.

Summers may have "apologized," but he took tremendous heat for three separate courageous moves -- the remarks on women in science, Israeli Divestment which he squelched, and Cornell West's lack of scholarship and subsequent departure for more congenial Princeton.

Harvard does not have the propaganda MEALAC infiltration Columbia has. Bollinger has allowed the Saudis and UAE to buy a department. Anyone who expects that situation to improve isn't watching the trail of cash.

[dennisw]

It's revolting how these multi-kulti diversity freaks always rise to the top of the academic food chain. Freaks like Jean Howard have a death grip on American higher education. Her mischief used to be confined to the English department.

She has published essays on Shakespeare, Pope, Ford, Heywood, Dekker, Marston, and Jonson, as well as on aspects of contemporary critical theory including new historicism, Marxism, and issues in feminism. Her books include Shakespeare's Art of Orchestration (1984); Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology, edited with Marion O'Connor (1987); The Stage and Struggle in Early Modern England (1994); with Phyllis Rackin, Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (1997); Marxist Shakespeares, edited with Scott Shershow (2000);