We have a letter to the editor, with this pithy comment in it:
It is the function of the academy to challenge conventional thinking, to unearth evidence that does not fit conveniently into the patriotic and simplistic models of political and corporate elite and to offer different perspectives as to ways of seeing the world.
And even an entire guest column by uber-liberal writing Professor Fred Wilcox, who complains:
What is missing in these calls for multiple wars is any analysis of why people might hate or wish to attack the United States of America. Moreover, anyone who questions the current administration's bellicose rhetoric, indeed its license to kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason, is called a traitor, labeled unpatriotic and dismissed as an American-hating leftist.
Ithaca is working overtime to hold on to that "City of Evil" title,
The first guy [Charles DeMotte (Professor of History, Empire State College, New York)]is a real wack job, whose writings range from Finger Lakes restaurant reviews to book reviews of New Age gibberish.