Finkelstein on latest smear

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09.04.2007 | Inside Higher Education

...DePaul University has said very little about why it placed Norman Finkelstein on leave, called off his courses, and denied the controversial professor the customary year in the classroom that follows a tenure denial. An article in Monday’s Chicago Tribune, based on confidential university documents, said that the political science department, which had backed Finkelstein’s tenure bid, has recommended the leave following a series of incidents involving “threatening and discourteous behavior” by Finkelstein after his tenure denial. On three instances, campus security officers were called. After the article appeared, the blog College Freedom, which has backed him, questioned how threatening these incidents were. Via e-mail, Finkelstein called the incidents “alleged” and said that they are based on things that took place in June, leaving the university plenty of time to have held a hearing and provided him with due process. He called it a “cause for wonder” why nothing happened until his classes were suspended and he lost rights to his office last month — without a hearing. Supporters of Finkelstein protested on his behalf last week (photographs are online at Peter Kirstein’s blog) and he is expected to try to go back to his old office, from which he has been barred, on Wednesday. If arrested, Finkelstein has vowed to go on a hunger strike....



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