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Fire Professor or Lose Funds, Columbia Alumni Say
Columbia Spectator ^
| 04/03/03
| Margaret Hunt Gram
Posted on 04/03/2003 9:16:45 AM PST by Jeff Head
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To: Grampa Dave
Absoultely ... if this goes down well, they will be afriad to anyway, as they should be. Stand 'em up ... and knock 'em down.
To: Zebra
29 - Beautifuly put, Zebra!
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posted on
04/03/2003 9:34:41 AM PST
by
Budge
(God Bless FReepers!)
To: Jeff Head
For all their idiotic pontificating about "academic freedom," I know from personal experience that there are few institutions more willing to sell their souls for the almighty dollar than American universities.
To: newzhawk
We have to remind parents with college children who might send their children to places like Columbia.
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posted on
04/03/2003 9:36:16 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Anti America Americans are outing themselves as their side loses in Iraq!)
To: Tacis
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posted on
04/03/2003 9:36:32 AM PST
by
BlueLancer
(Der Elite Møøsenspåånkængruppen ØberKømmååndø (EMØØK))
To: Jeff Head
Great, let's 'pile-on.'
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posted on
04/03/2003 9:36:53 AM PST
by
blam
To: Alberta's Child
Most Canadian Universities would sell their souls for the soon to be devalued Canadian $'s.
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posted on
04/03/2003 9:37:45 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Anti America Americans are outing themselves as their side loses in Iraq!)
To: Jeff Head
I must confess that I called the development office this a.m. and said politely (into the voice mail...i guess they unplugged the phone) that while I was not a Columbia grad., I was going to do whatever I could to convince all Columbia grads I know to withhold any contributions. And I was going to recruit people to help me in this effort. I said a polite thank you and hung up.
It's a pebble in the ocean, for sure...but it's a pebble.
To: Jeff Head
And their father, John Butkiewicz, CC '51 and a former member of the U.S. Army, informed Bollinger that he was revising his will to exclude Columbia. I am reminded of the old Mel Lazarus comic strip "Momma." In this particular one, the children (Thomas, Franics and the daughter) all visit her and hug her. Francis says, in fact (singing) "ain't no momma like my momma." Final panel: Momma says to the reader (in effect), "if you want a visit from your children, tell them you've made an appointment with your attorney." LOL
To: Grampa Dave
Remember the former SLA member who had become a professor at some university, and the president played the left wing game until alums started to withholding donations and urging other alums to do the same. Perhaps you mean Bernadine Dohrn at the Northwestern Law School. She was a former leader of the Weathermen and she took the 5th when captured. Her husband is a professor at U of Chicago Ed School and fits right in with all the other leftists.
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posted on
04/03/2003 9:39:06 AM PST
by
Poincare
((not a good time for a Frenchish screen name))
To: Alberta's Child
That's right. That's why if this continues, it will be successful.
They have no strength to their misbegotten and vile convictions. This episode just proves both points ... their convictions are vile ... and they have no strength to them other than to corrupt our youth while they sit in their ivory towers spewing this vomit.
To: Poincare; Travis McGee
Thanks. I forgot her name. I know two NW alums, who stopped all checks until she was officially fired.
Thanks for helping me here. Travis here are so more 5th columnists left over from their activites in the 1960/70's.
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posted on
04/03/2003 9:41:49 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Anti America Americans are outing themselves as their side loses in Iraq!)
To: blam
Pile on ... and the ROLL ON!
To: Grampa Dave
And . . . ?
To: Jeff Head
This is good to behold.
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posted on
04/03/2003 9:42:44 AM PST
by
meadsjn
To: calvin sun
I like this one from the son.
Vincent Butkiewicz, CC '79 and MBA '85, promised Bollinger that he would cancel the donation he made in a recent fund drive, assuring him that "you should not expect to see any donations from me nor an application for admission from any of my children until Prof. De Genova has been fired.
Need tens of thousands more just like that.
To: meadsjn
Yes it is ... perhaps the wheel is indeed turning.
To: Jeff Head
Outstanding. Keep the pressure up!
To: Alberta's Child
So why do your typical 2 incher hatred of only Americans?
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posted on
04/03/2003 9:45:23 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Anti America Americans are outing themselves as their side loses in Iraq!)
To: Jeff Head
Jeff: Why did you not post the rest of the article which presents the other side? The last two paragraphs are particularly interesting. Here's the rest of the article...
Not all donors who have spoken on the matter have expressed dismay or issued ultimatums.
Phyllis Mailman and her family's foundation donated $33 million to the school of public health in 1998. Mailman told the New York Post that she thought Bollinger "handled it very beautifully when he certainly disavowed, personally, for the university and for himself, all of the professor's comment, but upholds his right to make them."
Joseph Sullivan, CC '86 and Law '89, is also not planning to make the University choose between him and De Genova. Sullivan, a regular donor who has been one of De Genova's most vocal opponents for the past week, says that he "would like to see De Genova fired." But he says that he will not express his discontent by threatening to stop donating to Columbia.
"I realize it's a large university, and I'm not interested in making any ultimatums," Sullivan said. "I know Bollinger has a very strong opinion regarding tolerance--he believes that it's good to let the enemy and all the kooks make their statements so you can see where they are."
Gray, and others working in the Office of University Development and Alumni Donations, said that the University would not necessarily heed ultimatums even if important donors issued them.
"They'd love for us to fire him, but it's not going to happen," Gray said. "He's protected under academic free speech."
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posted on
04/03/2003 9:47:20 AM PST
by
upchuck
(Sadamn: You are on the way to destruction...you have no chance to survive, make your time..ha ha ha)
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