[crazykatz]

You are so fantastic!! Thank you for posting this.

[laconic]

What was the reaction of the other "professors" who were at this "teach-in" to these remarks? Did any of them have the decency to tell this little slob to leave? Or did they tacitly agree but sitting there and saying nothing? The administration of Columbia University needs to take action on this and if it won't, the US Congress (which controls much of their funding) NEEDS TO!

[RightOnline]

Darned sight nicer than the email I sent his sorry hide.

[jocon307]

"Perhaps NY FReepers might want to FReep him in person."

What do you say, my area freepers? We could manage to arrange this. This story definately has legs, and if the good professor doesn't issue a retraction very soon, he must be made to regret it.

[lainde]

I emailed President Bollinger last night and thought I had gotten it off my chest. I was wrong...This woman's letter has upset me all over again.

[CheneyChick]

I certainly hope that this university wakes up and does the right thing, along with all the other ones whose professors are spouting off with this kind of crap. It will not be tolerated.

[Jay D. Dyson]

Absolutely right on the money. Good job. I'd like to see that cretin try to worm his way out of his rhetoric now!

-Jay

[Hobsonphile]

Leftism on Campus ping!

If you would like to be added to the Leftism on Campus ping list, please
notify me via FReep-mail.

Regards...

[doug from upland]

"Peace is not patriotic," DeGenova began. "Peace is subversive, because peace anticipates a very different world than the one in which we live--a world where the U.S. would have no place." "U.S. patriotism is inseparable from imperial warfare and white supremacy," he said. "U.S. flags are the emblem of the invading war machine in Iraq today. They are the emblem of the occupying power. The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military."

Between DeGenova's condemnation of patriotism and his call for "fragging"--"I wish," he said, "for a million Mogadishus"--his speech provoked many of the professors who spoke later in the night to assert their disagreement.

[ladyjane]

Will someone please provide info regarding the university's major donors?

Columbia University gets its big money from the federal government. They jeopardize that money if they tolerate discrimination and if they tolerate sexual harassment. It will be interesting to see if their federal money is jeopardized by the statement of a faculty member.

Pressure on the president of the university obviously will occur, but the real pressure points are the Trustees. They are frequently big money, big power 'guys' who absolutely have influence. The names and affilitations of Columbia's trustees are probably on their webpage.

[mountaineer]

Good letter, Doug - civil, yet unambiguous.

[Atticus]

My parents are graduates of Columbia University. They have regularly given money to the University for almost fifty years. They are not major benefactors by any stretch of the imagination, but their faithful generosity did not go unrewarded when I applied to the University myself in the 1980s (I took a pass and went to a less competitive Northeast party school). I am going to try to prevail upon them to withhold their giving until Columbia rids itself of this professor.

[AAABEST]

Here's the contact information for the Provost, his boss in the Anthropology Dept. and Public affairs:

Jonathan Cole (Provost)	email: jrc5@columbia.edu phone: 212-854-2404
Nicholas Dirks (Anthropology Dept Head)	email: nbd7@columbia.edu phone: 212-854-4552
Columbia Public Affairs Dept	phone: 212-854-5573

[doug from upland]

Dennis Prager was a Fellow at Columbia University's School of International Affairs, where he did graduate work at the Middle East and Russian Institutes. I expect that he will be all over this on his radio show on Monday (9 to noon, Pacific) --- hear real audio by going to www.krla870.com.

Dennis is considering a run for the U.S. Senate against Barbara Boxer. This issue could be a good launching pad. Please write to him regarding this matter --- dennisprager@dennisprager.com

[KC_Conspirator]

Yes, in fact Professor De Genova hopes many Americans die. He also hopes for another Holocaust since he seems to hate Jews as well.

[ladyjane]

Here are some Trustees Emeriti

ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER
Chairman Emeritus
The New York Times Company

CHARLES F. LUCE
Chairman Emeritus
Consolidated Edison of New York, Inc.

LAWRENCE E. WALSH
Counsel
Crowe & Dunlevy

W. CLARKE WESCOE
Chairman and CEO(retired)
Sterling Drug, Inc.

CHARLES M. METZNER
Senior United States District Judge
U.S. District Court

MARTHA T. MUSE
Chairman
The Tinker Foundation, Inc.

CONNIE S. MANIATTY
Honorary Managing Director
Salomon Smith Barney

THOMAS D. FLYNN
Partner (retired)
Ernst & Young

THOMAS L. CHRYSTIE
Partner (retired)
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

SAMUEL L. HIGGINBOTTOM, Chair Emeritus
Chairman and President (retired)
Rolls-Royce, Inc.

MICHAEL I. SOVERN, President Emeritus of the University
Kent Professor of Law
Columbia University

G.G. MICHELSON, Chair Emerita

WARREN H. PHILLIPS
Director, Chairman and CEO (retired)
Dow Jones & Co., Inc.

STANLEY L. TEMKO
Senior Counsel
Covington & Burling

EDWARD N. COSTIKYAN
Counsel
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

JOHN GOELET
Goelet Corporation

HENRY L. KING, Chair Emeritus
Senior Counsel
Davis Polk & Wardwell

JERRY I. SPEYER, Chair Emeritus
President
Tishman Speyer Properties, Inc.

JOSEPH D. WILLIAMS
Chairman and CEO (retired)
Warner-Lambert Company

LIONEL I. PINCUS, Chair Emeritus
Chairman and CEO
Warburg Pincus
 
MARYLIN B. LEVITT
Assistant Professor
George Washington University

JOHN J. CURLEY
Chairman, President and CEO
Gannett Co., Inc.

EDWARD BOTWINICK
President
Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation, Inc.

EDWIN ROBBINS
Of Counsel
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

ARNOLD S. RELMAN
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and of
   Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Editor Emeritus
New England Journal of Medicine

WALTER BURKE

ANNA K. LONGOBARDO
Director, Strategic Initiatives (retired)
Unisys Corporation

MARGARET E. MAHONEY
President
MEM Associates, Inc.

MATHY MEZEY
Independence Professor of Nursing Education
New York University

PETER K.C. WOO
Group Chairman
Wheelock and Company Limited

MAUREEN A. COGAN
Children's Advocate, Philanthropist

DONALD F. McHENRY
University Research Professor of
   Diplomacy and International Affairs
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service

YUZABURO MOGI
President and CEO
Kikkoman Corporation

STEPHEN FRIEDMAN, Chair Emeritus
Senior Principal
MMC Capital, Inc.

JOHN E. ZUCCOTTI
Chairman
Brookfield Financial Properties

JEROME A. CHAZEN
Chairman
Chazen Capital Partners, LLC

GEORGE E. RUPP, President Emeritus of the University
President
International Rescue Committee

LAURANS A. MENDELSON
Chairman, President and CEO
HEICO Corporation

ROBERT A. MCCORMACK
Executive Vice President (retired)
Citicorp

[backhoe]

Good for you, doug- here's what Jeff Head sent the little SOB:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/879351/posts
My Message to Columbia Professor Nicholas De Genova regarding his death wish for our forces
FreeRepublic | March 29, 2003 | Jeff Head

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Noumenon]

My respnse to De Genova -

Nicholas De Genova,

I thought that I had heard and seen the worst in terms of anti-American, pro-tyranny hate from the sidewalk defecators and the window-smashing anarchists in cities like San Francisco and Portland, Oregon. I thought that they had reached a new low when I saw a photo of a pair of demonstrators holding a large banner that read, “We support our troops when they shoot their officers.”

But you, sir, achieved a new low when I heard your call for the men and women of the US Military to suffer a "million Mogadishus." I read that you had described our armed forces men and women as not having a decent regard for life. I found several published accounts quoting other statements that you made, such as, “The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military," and "If we really believe that this war is criminal ... then we have to believe in the victory of the Iraqi people and the defeat of the U.S. war machine." You also made the assertion that Americans who called themselves "patriots" were white supremacists.

These statements of yours – which I understand were received with approval and applause – have placed you beyond the pale of civilized society. I could write page after page in refutation of what you have said, but I also understand that post-modern, Marxist multi-culturalist intellectual frauds like yourself aren’t in the least bit interested in the truth. You lack the price of admission to any sort of reasonable debate: that is, a respect for facts, logic and the principle of cause and effect and a healthy regard for the truth. It isn’t possible to reason with those like yourself whose final 'argument' is the barrel of a gun and the gulag.

Mere words cannot express my heartbreak and rage at your perfidy, the extent of your murderous hatred and slander. Even more outrageous is the fact that you are pouring this hatred and poison into the minds of those you purport to ‘teach,’ although I suspect that ‘indoctrinate’ is the more appropriate term.

This is not merely uncivil – it is criminal.

You have no business teaching.

You have no business living in this country.

Those who are dedicated to the destruction of a free society are unfit to live in that same society. So I would applaud the day that your body swings from the nearest lamp post. I would nod with satisfaction if you by some quirk of cosmic justice were able to experience a smorgasboard of the brutality and torture that is the stock and trade of the regimes that you support. I will cheer the day that you are held to personal account for your call for the murder of our servicemen by those same servicemen.

I can assure you that this will not be forgotten. I can assure you that at some point, you will reap the justice and the retribution that you so richly deserve. I will do all that I can to keep alive your words and your hatred for this country and the people who love it - you won’t be able to slink away or apologize your way out of this. I won’t forget. Neither will others.

You will be held accountable.



Ward Dorrity
warddorrity@starband.net

[Paleo Conservative]

Professor DeGenova deserves to be fragged.