How DePaul practices Vincentian values

Prof. Finkelstein - Professor Budde has informed me that you have asked for office space for your books. We do not have office space assigned to you for the coming academic year. I will look into whether we can make space available for you and either I or Professor Budde will get in touch with you next week with more information.

In the meantime, you will not have access to your old office space. To the extent that you left personal belongings in your old office space, we can discuss a plan for their return to you when I get in touch with you next week. You should not plan on moving into any office space tomorrow, as that option is not available to you.

I will contact you next week with more information.

Dr. Charles (Chuck) Suchar
Professor and Dean
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
DePaul University
Vincent dePaul Professor
Office of the Dean
990 W. Fullerton Ave. Office#4207
Chicago, IL. 60614-3298
Phones: (773) 325-7305
(773) 325-1858
fax: (773) 325-7304
e-mail: csuchar@depaul.edu



DePaul's latest perfidy: A student writes the President

From: ariplinger[at]mac.com
To: "Fr. Dennis Holtschneider" president@depaul.edu
CC: NormanGF[at]hotmail.com
Subject: Fwd: course cancellation: PSC 235
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:05:00 -0500

Fr. Holtschneider,

I wrote you an e-mail last week about this very thing, and got no response from you about it. It has now become apparent that your silence was because you knew what you planned to do and despite the outcry from students and faculty you went ahead and did it anyways.

I am in my graduating year at DePaul. You have taken my favorite Professor away from me before I could finish my final year. You have taken one of the greatest faculty members at DePaul away from the University. And most importantly, you have taken one of the most important scholars of the Israel-Palestinian debate away from academia. And now you have even deprived the students of DePaul one final academic year with Professor Finkelstein.

I have had nothing bad to say about DePaul until all of this happened. I often told everyone my decision to come to DePaul was the best decision that I ever made. I have always been proud to be a member of the DePaul community. I am extremely involved around campus as the President of the DePaul Student Peace Alliance and Secretary of the DePaul Democrats I have worked as an Honors Program student mentor, an Honors Program peer mentor, a Discover Chicago student leader two years running, and as a research assistant and volunteer for the Adolescent Community Health Research Group. I am also proud to say that I have been doing great in school and have maintained a 3.81 GPA. All of this now means absolutely nothing to me. I have had all of these things that I was once so proud of taken away from me, and it is because of your decisions.

I really believed that DePaul was unlike other schools, that it was not afraid to take a stand for social justice. St. Vincent DePaul was an incredible man that stood up for what was right, regardless of what the powers that be told him to do. I really thought that DePaul University would help prepare me for a life dedicated to social justice and my plans to join the Peace Corps. I now realize that it is nothing but a facade. When you and the other University administrators had a chance to take a stance on social justice and tenure a Professor that has dedicated his life to these values in one of the most dangerous conflicts of our time you turned your backs on social justice and fired him. You have now barred him from coming back to teach his students about Equality and Social Justice and Freedom and Empowerment (the classes I was enrolled in and you cancelled).

I believe that as the President of my University that you owe it to me, personally, to tell me why this was done. Why did you do this? How could you let this happen? And how am I supposed to go next week during Immersion Week and tell my students all these wonderful things about DePaul? How am I supposed to run a Common Hour session about DePaul's Mission and Values when you have proven to me that they do not exist? What am I supposed to do?

Sincerely,
Andrew Riplinger

Begin forwarded message:

From: RHONOLD[at]depaul.edu
Date: August 24, 2007 11:41:30 AM CDT
To: RHONOLD[at]depaul.edu
Subject: course cancellation: PSC 235

Political Science 235, section 101, "Equality and Social Justice," for the autumn quarter 2007-8, has been cancelled. You have been dropped from the course.

I will work with you to make sure that your academic progress is not impeded in any way by this regrettable development. Please contact me directly if you need assistance getting rescheduled for a suitable substitute course.

Sincerely,

Randall Honold, Ph.D.

Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
Instructor of Philosophy
Institute for Nature & Culture
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
DePaul University
990 West Fullerton Avenue
Suite 4400
Chicago, Illinois 60614
773-325-4928 (phone)
773-325-4781 (fax)
rhonold@depaul.edu



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