You can follow the continuing saga over the alleged inappropriate behavior by Middle Eastern Studies professors at Columbia at a new website, Columbiaacademicfreedom.org. I find it especially interesting, and disturbing, that two of the professors appointed to a university committee investigating the charges are members of a department of which one of the accused is the chair.
UPDATE: Interesting and disturbing if true, but untrue. The Columbia website authors were apparently a bit confused. A reader explains:
Dabashi is head of something called the “Center of Comparative Literature and Society,” different the Department of English and Comparative Literature, which is where Profs. Griffin and Howard have
positions. If you go to the page that lists the faculty associated with
Dabashi’s center (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccls/lists/dir/faculty-alpha.html), you’ll
see that neither Griffin nor Howard are listed as being associated with the center.
Thanks for the correction!
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