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Professor Emeritus Kemal Karpat

PhD: New York University MA: Univ. of Washington BA: Univ. of Istanbul

Area: Modern Europe

Specialization: The Middle East (modern); Balkans, Migration Movements and Nationhood; Ottoman Empire & Modern Turkey

Research and Teaching Interests: Teaching fields : Europe, Middle East, Central Asia. Current Research : “People's Houses and the Development of Turkish Populism and Nationalism" and "Settlement of Refugees and Immigrants in the Middle East, 1850-1914"

Selected Publications: The Politicization of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2001) The Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey (Brill, 2000) Studies on Ottoman History (Brill, 2002)

And a Socialist

Students from several University of Wisconsin campuses around the state began a three-day hunger strike Monday, asking state legislators to alter their stand on tuition, which has jumped 37.5 percent since 2003.

UW, UW-Eau Claire and UW-LaCrosse are participating in the hunger strike. The strike includes several Madison groups including the Associate Students of Madison, the Student Labor Action Coalition, the MultiCulturual Student Coalition, Green Progressive Alliance, MEChA and the Teaching Assistant Association.

... Students in Madison are demanding tuition be rolled back to its 2003 standing, rather than allow Gov. Jim Doyle's executive budget proposal of a 5 to 7 percent increase in the next two years.

... The raised tuition may also affect students of color.

Coordinator for the Diversity Education Program Suri Kempe said tuition hikes are not only an economic issue but also a racist policy. "Raising tuition by 56 percent only feeds a racist system that marginalizes communities of people and denies them entry into college and opportunities for a better life," Kempe said.

They should both be sent back. Instead, they are both trying to exercise censorship over a newspaper on an American university campus.