Amateur Hour at Brandeis

AsleepAtTheWheel
Thu, 15 May 2014 03:07:53 +0000

There’s been a lot of stuff written on this issue, but I thought that I’d link to one article, which mentions Brandeis several times (along with a number of other universities):
Dan Henninger: Bonfire of the Humanities - WSJ;

And BTW, responding to an email of mine the Director of Development Communications at Brandeis sent me a thoughtful email that included a lengthy statement by President Lawrence (which I’d not seen elsewhere). To Lawrence’s credit he does a real mea culpa about the lack of due diligence prior to offering the honorary degree to Ali. But when he explicitly tries to address the double standard at Brandeis (no degree for Ali, yes degree for Kushner) he doesn’t address the double standard at all, but rather goes on a long rant regarding Brandeis’ strong support of Israel. It’s OK to offend Jews and Zionists, but not Muslims or “Two-Third Worlders” (a term I learned when I read the faculty petition objecting to Ali’s honorary degree).