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Columbia Professors Plan to Visit Iran to Apologize to Ahmadinejadby Winfield Myers • January 8, 2008 http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2008/01/columbia-professors-plan-to-visit Update Below I can find no independent confirmation of this story, which is posted at MehrNews.com in Tehran. But if it's true, it will be another shameful chapter in the history of Middle East studies at Columbia University. The title sums up the story. Apologize to a man like Ahmadinejad? Whatever one thinks of Columbia president Lee Bollinger's remarks during his introduction of Ahmadinejad last fall (and Campus Watch does not take positions on campus speakers), that Columbia professors would grovel at the feet of such a regime--if this story is true--is further evidence of the intellectual and moral collapse within certain quarters of the American professoriate. Here is the full text of the article; no professors are named.
Update, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008 Today's New York Sun carries an article by Peter Kiefer in which Gary Sick of Columbia states: "There is no truth to it whatsoever." Richard Bulliet, another professor of Middle East studies there, says he hasn't heard of it, and that "There is no intention on the part of the Columbia administration to authorize a delegation." And a school spokesman, David Stone, told Kiefer: "The university has no knowledge or information about the claims being made in the Iranian media." receive the latest by email: subscribe to campus watch's free mailing list This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is presented as an integral whole with complete information provided about its author, date, place of publication, and original URL.
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