Support Academic Freedom at CUNY

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   Name: Hannah A on Feb 6, 2013

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2. 2402
   Name: Robert Seborer on Feb 6, 2013

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3. 2403
   Name: R Perkins on Feb 6, 2013

   Comments: There are no sacred cows in an abattoir of bad ideas. Those who seek to circumscribe free discussion are enemies of America and western civilization. They are temperamentally better suited to Israel, where open discussion of BDS and equal rights for Palestinians are proscribed by racist law. Feel free to move there, and don't the door hit you on the ass.

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4. 2404
   Name: Anonymous on Feb 6, 2013

   Comments: Free Palestine!!

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5. 2405
   Name: Jim Long on Feb 6, 2013

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6. 2406
   Name: Douglas Pomeroy on Feb 7, 2013

   Comments: Free speech only works if is truly free. As Ben Franklin said "Freedom cannot be limited without being lost". I think Israel's knee-jerk supporters should study history with open eyes for a change!

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7. 2407
   Name: Anisa Hamood on Feb 7, 2013

   Comments: Where would "freedom of speach" have gone in America if sponsorship is cancelled? Why can't the Palestinian side of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict be heard?

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8. 2408
   Name: Henry Roach on Feb 7, 2013

   Comments: If I put two columns on a paper with one column title Democracy and the other Fascism, And write down the actions of our Government, the Fascism column is filling up faster than the Democracy column.

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9. 2409
   Name: Linda Greene on Feb 7, 2013

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10. 2410
    Name: Yvette Pollack on Feb 7, 2013

    Comments: As an aluma ( class of '48 !) I fully support the rights of academic freedom and deplore Mayor Bloomberg's threats

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11. 2411
    Name: Ann Roos on Feb 7, 2013

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12. 2412
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 7, 2013

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13. 2413
    Name: Neda Atanasoski on Feb 7, 2013

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14. 2414
    Name: Valerie C. Robinson on Feb 7, 2013

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15. 2415
    Name: Eileen Colligan on Feb 7, 2013

    Comments: Academic freedom is essential to the intellectual life of a university and the country.

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16. 2416
    Name: Keith Lavecchia on Feb 7, 2013

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17. 2417
    Name: Miguel Levy on Feb 7, 2013

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18. 2418
    Name: Dylan Rees on Feb 7, 2013

    Comments: Supporting your cause from Rensselaer Polytechnic!

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19. 2419
    Name: RALPH POYNTER on Feb 7, 2013

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20. 2420
    Name: Peter Rood on Feb 7, 2013

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21. 2421
    Name: Kathryn Kelly on Feb 7, 2013

    Comments: It's very important that all sides of this issue are able to be heard. This event will assist as often voices of Palestinians are suppressed.

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22. 2422
    Name: Ann Kaslow on Feb 7, 2013

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23. 2423
    Name: Elizabeth O'Reilly on Feb 7, 2013

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24. 2424
    Name: Susan Barney on Feb 7, 2013

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25. 2425
    Name: Debbie Lawrence on Feb 7, 2013

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26. 2426
    Name: Jacques Francois on Feb 7, 2013

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27. 2427
    Name: Baneen Noorali on Feb 7, 2013

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28. 2428
    Name: Paul Regan on Feb 7, 2013

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29. 2429
    Name: Lynn Kotula on Feb 7, 2013

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30. 2430
    Name: (The Rev.) Michael Relyea on Feb 7, 2013

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31. 2431
    Name: Peter Herman on Feb 7, 2013

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32. 2432
    Name: Ron & Nancy Saeger on Feb 7, 2013

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33. 2433
    Name: Onur Kapdan on Feb 7, 2013

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34. 2434
    Name: Julie Ruben on Feb 7, 2013

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35. 2435
    Name: Vincent Calvetti-Wolf on Feb 7, 2013

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36. 2436
    Name: Stephanie Rugoff on Feb 7, 2013

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37. 2437
    Name: Jeffrey Putman on Feb 7, 2013

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38. 2438
    Name: Michael Locker on Feb 7, 2013

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39. 2439
    Name: Randall Wyan on Feb 7, 2013

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40. 2440
    Name: Ece Algan on Feb 7, 2013

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41. 2441
    Name: Andrew Reynolds on Feb 7, 2013

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42. 2442
    Name: Robert Arnold on Feb 7, 2013

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43. 2443
    Name: Linda Quigley on Feb 7, 2013

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44. 2444
    Name: Marie Prestinary on Feb 7, 2013

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45. 2445
    Name: Lucinda Manning on Feb 7, 2013

    Comments: I very much agree with this petition's summary: "Academic freedom is a principle of self-determination. It is threatened not just when outside groups and government officials try to cancel an event but when they try to change an event and impose their own standards of acceptability. A school administration shows its commitment to academic freedom not in the easiest cases but in the hardest ones: when it has to stand up to enormous, sometimes coercive pressure, and defend unpopular views with which the administrators might personally disagree. That is why an unflinching and uncompromising defense of the department's right to sponsor the event is necessary. We hope President Gould continues to defend the department against its outside detractors, and we lend our support to that cause." Next Tues. NYU's Tamiment Library and Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center is sponsoring a book talk by Marjorie Heins titled Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge. From the NYU Press blurb: "In the early 1950s, New York City’s teachers and professors became the targets of massive investigations into their political beliefs and associations. Those who refused to cooperate in the questioning were fired. Some had undoubtedly been communists, and the Communist Party-USA certainly made its share of mistakes, but there was never evidence that the accused teachers had abused their trust. Some were among the most brilliant, popular, and dedicated educators in the city." Marjorie Heins' book traces the political fortunes of academic freedom beginning in the late 19th century, both on campus and in the courts. Combining political and legal history with wrenching personal stories, the book details how the anti-communist excesses of the 1950s inspired the Supreme Court to recognize the vital role of teachers and professors in American democracy. The crushing of dissent in the 1950s impoverished political discourse in ways that are still being felt, and First Amendment academic freedom, a product of that period, is in peril today." Let's not go backward to those scared and unenlightened days of closing down open campus debates on controversial political issues. Here's the link for next week's academic freedom talk: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/events/2013_02_12_heins.pdf

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46. 2446
    Name: Alex Prichard on Feb 7, 2013

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47. 2447
    Name: Ali Saboohi on Feb 7, 2013

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48. 2448
    Name: Ali Saboohi on Feb 7, 2013

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49. 2449
    Name: Michal Samama on Feb 7, 2013

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50. 2450
    Name: Damon Bean on Feb 7, 2013

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