[foofoopowder]

A new NY Sun article on discrimination at Columbia. Columbia recently appointed a "Vice Provost" for Diversity. Maybe she should look at the fact that the faculty is more than 90% liberals/registered Demos, etc. We should stop sending our kids to colleges that are so openly biased. http://www.nysun.com/article/3901

[Piranha]

His comments suggest that Mr. Bollinger's focus is not on whether professors at Columbia who study the Middle East have an anti-Israel bias but whether students who feel academically threatened have a clear way to express their grievances.

This sounds about right.

I was at a presentation earlier this week with the dean of one of Columbia's schools (one of the schools in which Middle East policy is covered). She said that the focus of Bollinger's response was going to be a defense of academic freedom. I'm glad to see that its thrust seems to be not simply a defense of anti-Israel faculty tyrants, but instead a defense of the right of both faculty and students to a free exchange of ideas.