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DePaul Students write President Holtschneider
Norman Finkelstein's right to return to teach
08.14.2007 | DePaul Academic Freedom Chicago
Fr. Holtschneider,
As you are aware, numerous DePaul students consider your recent decision to deny tenure to Dr. Norman Finkelstein in the Political Science Department to be unacceptable. It is disheartening to find that we have further reason for concern. As students of DePaul University, we are deeply distraught to discover that DePaul may not allow Dr. Finkelstein on campus to teach us in his terminal year as stipulated in his employment contract. As university administrators, you have denied him tenure; though as educators, we implore you not to restrict our learning. We attend DePaul to learn. We want to learn from Dr. Finkelstein.
Currently, Campus Connect lists Dr. Finkelstein's classes as enrolled at capacity, despite one being offered at 8:30 AM on Monday/Wednesday/Friday and another being offered on the same days at 9:40 AM. As you know, classes held during these time frames are not the easiest to fill, and their status reflects directly on Dr. Finkelstein as a professor. Students returning in the 2007/2008 Autumn Quarter expect to be taught by the brightest and most truthful of DePaul's professors. We also expect to have a voice in determining and defining the criteria by which our professors are evaluated: we have done so, and Dr. Finkelstein fulfills those criteria.
Dr. Finkelstein has expressed interest in teaching this coming quarter and has already submitted his course texts to the bookstore and his syllabi to the Department. The minimum we expect is that you allow Dr. Finkelstein to return for his contractually granted terminal year.
Please be clear that DePaul is inherently an educational institution and that students form the core of this university. Consider this as a formal notice from the students that denying Dr. Finkelstein his terminal year will be considered complete abandonment of the students and your responsibilities.
Sincerely,
DePaul Academic Freedom Committee
www.academicfreedomchicago.org



More articles on tenure denial:
- The Chronicle of Higher Ed: A reliable source (06.04.2007)
- Raul Hilberg:
"I have a sinking feeling about the damage this will do to academic freedom..." (Chicago Tribune, 06.26.2007)
- DePaul Students write President Holtschneider (DePaul Academic Freedom Chicago: "Norman Finkelstein's right to return to teach," 08.15.2007)
- A detailed analysis of Depaul's tenure decision ("ACADEMIC FREEDOM ON TRIAL: NORMAN FINKELSTEIN AND THE MINORITY REPORT," 08.10.2007)
- DePaul Faculty Comments on Tenure Decision (Bill Martin, Professor of Philosophy at DePaul, DissidentVoice.org: "Urgent Need to Right Wrongs at DePaul University," 08.09.2007)
- RESOLUTION OPPOSING DEPAUL UNIVERSITY'S DECISION TO DENY TENURE TO DR. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN AND DR. MEHRENE LARUDEE (08.02.2007)
- AAUP v. Father Holtschneider (of Depaul) (07.28.2007)
- American Association of University Professors letter (07.25.2007)
- Letter from former student to DePaul (07.25.2007)
- Protesting Norman Finkelstein's Tenure Denial; or, Academic Freedom Declines across the U.S. - Part II" (07.15.2007)
- If the Stairs Do Fit, You Cannot Acquit (Finkelstein comments: "The DePaul administration now alleges that I am a Menace II Society. To prove this allegation, they have...", 07.03.2007)
- More photos from DePaul students (07.03.2007)
- Letter from a student at Harvard Law School (07.03.2007)
- Interesting revelations, interesting speculations (CounterPunch: "Anatomy of a Smear: The Commissar Two-Step at DePaul," 07.02.2007)
- Photos and more from DePaul students "Who is John Simon?..." (07.02.2007)
- Resolution presented to US Social Forum (Atlanta) (07.02.2007)
- "The 'F-Word'- How DePaul Is Terrified Of Anything Finkelstein" (Chicago Indymedia, 06.29.2007)
- A DePaul Faster Speaks (CounterPunch: "Academic Injustices: Fasting for Justice at DePaul," 06.29.2007)
- A Reasoned Statement on Tenure Denial (CounterPunch: ""The Poisoning of Academic Freedom: Strange Calculus at DePaul," 06.28.2007)
- [DePaul students'] FAST UPDATE (06.30.2007)
- Iran on Tenure Denial (06.26.2007)
- Chronicle on DePaul Fast (06.25.2007)
- Dersh again: "Finkelstein's Sexism" (06.25.2007)
- Letter to DePaul President Holtschneider about Student Fast (06.25.2007)
- Al-Hayat on Tenure (06.24.2007)
- The plot thickens (Chicago Sun-Times: "Outwit. Outplay. Outlast. Outtenure?" 06.22.2007)
- Vancouver Jewish Group on Tenure (06.21.2007)
- CounterPunch: "Student Anger at the Denial of Tenure for Two Progressive Professors. Boycotting DePaul" (06.22.2007)
- Video: Aljazeera on tenure (06.21.2007)
- A letter to Father Holtschneider (06.19.2007)
- NBC5 | WMAQ TV, Chicago: "DePaul Students Turn Graduation Into Protest w/ video segment (06.19.2007)
- Counter Punch: Fallout from a Smear: Finkelstein and The Progressive (06.16.2007)
- DePaul Student Statement to Faculty (06.14.2007)
- Harvard Crimson on Tenure Denial (06.17.2007)
- Chicago Sun-Times: "Students ordered to leave chief's area" (06.14.2007)
- Chicago Sun-Times: "DePaul chief may face vote of no confidence" (06.13.2007)
- Students Call for Rally to Defend Academic Freedom (06.13.2007)
- ChicagoPublicRadio.org, Eight Forty Eight: "Dr. Norman Finkelstein joins us to reflect on DePaul University's decision to deny him tenure." (06.12.2007)
- The Jerusalem Post: "US Jewish prof. refused tenure due to Shoah views" (06.11.2007)
- DePaul Students Take a Stand - by Sitting In! (06.12.2007)
- Inside Higher Education on Tenure Denial (06.11.2007)
- The (British) Guardian on Tenure Denial (06.11.2007)
- The New York Times on tenure denial (06.11.2007)
- Anti-Defamation League on tenure denial (06.11.2007)
- Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Tenure Denial (06.11.2007)
- Chicago Sun-Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog, the Associated Press on tenure denial (06.08.2007)
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What we can do:
On Gaza, West Bank, East Jerusalem & the Occupation:
On the Lobby & "the New anti-Semitism"
On Hezbollah & Hamas:
- The Guardian: Hamas acted on a very real fear of a US-sponsored coup. (06.22.2007)
- Haaretz: Haniyeh: Hamas willing to accept Palestinian state with 1967 borders. (11.09.2008)
- Henry Siegman, International Herald Tribune: Bring in Hamas. (03.04.2008)
- The Washington Post: No Peace Without Hamas. (04.17.2008)
- Al Jazeera English: Talk to Jazeera - Khaled Meshaal. (03.05.2008)
- International Herald Tribune: Bring in Hamas. (03.04.2008)
- "the Hezbollah model"
and "There is this claim that the obstacle [to peace] is that Hamas won't recognize Israel..." (09.30.2006)
"Israel always depended on the fact that its adversaries were stupid, incompetent... and, in fact, they were right... That when they were dealing with a Nasser, he was a blowhard; a Saddam Hussein,
he was a windbag; when they were dealing with Yasser Arafat, he was a hot air ballon.
They were nothing of any substance... [inaudible]... That was Israel's ace in the hole. Now comes along an Arab leader who says we have to use "reason."
It's a very remarkable thing to read. We have to use "reason."
We have to think, plan, organize."
- Hamas: A reasonable statement. (Los Angeles Times, 07.10.2007)
- The Guardian: Hamas condemns the Holocaust. (05.12.2008)
- Salon.com: The "hiding among civilians" myth. (07.28.2006)
- AIPAC v. Norman Finkelstein: A Debate on Israel's Assault on Gaza. (06.29.2006)
- Foreign Policy: Habitat for Hezbollah. (08.2006)
- The Irish Times: Hizbullah rockets cannot be fired from buildings. (07.31.2006)
Finkelstein on Israel:
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Video: On the place of civility
in academic life (10.18.2007)
Finkelstein's talk at the academic freedom conference
Tenure Denial Letters
(June - November, 2007)
On How Actual Survivors Were Cheated by
Jewish Organizations:
- Haaretz: "The Claims Conference intentionally defrauded Holocaust survivors." (09.25.2008)
- Ynet: Where did the Shoah money go? (12.11.2006)
'First Class flights around the world, accommodation at deluxe hotels, dining at fancy restaurants and a series of credit cards, this is how the Claims Conference, which deals with restitution of stolen Jewish property from the Holocaust, operates.'
- Haaretz: Survivors' protest makes foreign journalists gasp, security vanish (08.06.2007)
"I want the Germans to know where the money they gave Israel went," he said angrily. "I want the Germans to know that Israel took the money we should have received. I want them to answer one question: Where did our money go?"
- AP: Holocaust survivors blast $20 stipend (07.31.2007)
'Survivors have long claimed that European countries treat them far better than Israel, where many elderly survivors live in poverty.'
- Jewish Week: Holocaust Cash Went To Shadowy Pal Of Ousted WJC Leader (05.04.2007)
'Israeli finance minister, now being probed for corruption, urged death camp tour group to hire little-known N.Y. consultant; Singer friend Curtis Hoxter can't explain what he did for $709,000.'
- Jewish Week: "Survivors Balking At Lawyer's Fee" (03.02.2006)
- Shocking revelation in the London Jewish Chronicle. ("The man on the left earns $437,811 a year handling Shoah claims. So why are so many survivors pleading poverty?"; 05.30.2006)
- Survivors Protest Holocaust Industry Shakedown (08.29.2000)
- Finkelstein: Will The Holocaust Industry Incite Anti-Semitism? (08.11.2000)
- Finkelstein: Lessons of Holocaust Compensation (2001)
Finkelstein on Jimmy Carter:
Israeli civil libertarian's introduction to German edition of Beyond Chutzpah. (03.27.2006)
Communication for Middle East Journal. (02.19.2006)
Alleged Errors in Beyond Chutzpah. (2005)
MEMRI NAZIS (again) (10.23.2006)

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Under the heading DIABOLICAL PLOTS, I stated in Beyond Chutzpah...



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