Comments on: It’s over http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/ Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:54:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Timmy http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/comment-page-1/#comment-12665 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:33:30 +0000 http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/#comment-12665 Very interesting, and also terribly unfortunate. It’s a shame that the nature of the argument as well as the people making them has led to people labeled as anti-semites. Interestingly, I’ve heard of other complaints of infringement on academic freedom by individuals who hold to objectivism being denied tenure.

]]> By: Chance http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/comment-page-1/#comment-12643 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:05:23 +0000 http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/#comment-12643 Professor Finkelstein’s significance is kind of a long story. Basically, he is a fairly famous academic who, because of his beliefs on Israel-Palestine, is wrongly labeled an anti-semite and self-hating Jew by many people, particularly Alan Dershowitz of the Harvard Law School. It is because of pressure from Dershowitz and those who agree with him that DePaul denied his tenure.

The significance of the tenure battle is that the denial of his and Professor Larudee’s tenure based on political grounds is an infringement upon academic freedom. He has the right to be secure in his job, regardless of his political beliefs, and we, as students, have the right to be exposed to those beliefs.

If you want to know more, you can go to his website: Here.

]]> By: Evan http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/comment-page-1/#comment-12636 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:33:48 +0000 http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/#comment-12636 tim, you are such a finkelstein.

]]> By: Allison http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/comment-page-1/#comment-12631 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:35:18 +0000 http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/#comment-12631 chance LOOOOOOVEEESSSSSSS Finkelstein. loves.

]]> By: brock-o-lock http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/comment-page-1/#comment-12604 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:44:00 +0000 http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/#comment-12604 I was curious how far you feel your activism goes at (what i am assuming is) a private college, vs. a public establishment… It seems like private colleges can do whatever they politically want, as long as they are up to accredidation standards, where as a public university must be more careful not to burn bridges… Am i crazy?

]]> By: Timmy http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/comment-page-1/#comment-12602 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:01:32 +0000 http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/#comment-12602 I guess being out of the loop doesn’t help, but what was your goodly professor’s significance, and hence the significance of him being denied tenure?

]]> By: Emma http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/comment-page-1/#comment-12591 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:33:40 +0000 http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/#comment-12591 Noooo, Finkelstein!!

Please brainwash him into teaching at MCAD. Please.

]]> By: Evan http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/comment-page-1/#comment-12588 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:18:11 +0000 http://www.shambot.com/chance/2007-09-05/its-over/#comment-12588 well, at least your semester will be a tad less busy…? sucksanywaythough.

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