Posted on 09/22/2007 6:44:46 PM PDT by nwrep
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler made public yesterday correspondence rejecting, as president of Columbia University, a request made to him by a students' club to cancel the Dec. 12 lecture of Dr. Hans Luther, German Ambassador.
The request was made by the Columbia Social Problems Club, which contended: "Inviting the Nazi envoy to lecture on the foreign policy of his government and giving him an official reception means not only failing in our duty to oppose the Nazi onslaught, but signifies, if not open endorsement of the Nazi actions, atleast placing their principles on the same level with other viewpoints."
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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism’s Pulitizer Prize Program =
-AP- Pressured to return it’s Fake -NO GUN RI- Pulitzer Prize
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/817458/posts
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Columbia University said it does not plan to call off a speech by Irans president despite pressure. Mr. Ahmadinejad has a point of view and a message that we think is important that our students hear, said Dr. Abraham Wussman, Vice-Dean for Student Affairs. We cant build bridges to other cultures if we insist on judging them harshly simply because they have different values.
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http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
Might as well have the leaders of the Aryan Nation and Ku Klux Klan speak too.
Kill him there. That would be OK with me.
back then, carriers were classified as cruisers, as were submarines.. drastic limits on capital ships, no limits on cruisers...
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