Re: [xmca] Columbia events

Ana:

Very interesting broadcast. I am amazed at the introduction. I had not
heard precisely how Bollinger introduced Ahmadinejad. Strange that he
would so blatantly attack a geust!? Obviously more than difficult
questions but almost an outright challenge.

Thank you for the link,
eric

                                                                                                                               
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There was a very interesting talk on the Public Radio "Radio Times" by
Mary Moss-Coane with TRITA PARSI is President of the National
Iranian-American Coalition and with HAMID DABASHI, a professor of
Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. If
you care to listen to it, you can download the pod-cast here (probably
tomorrow or later today when they give a link to it:
http://www.whyy.org/cgi-bin/newwebRTlookup.cgi
It will most probably become a pod-cast in a few hours.

Both speakers agreed that the Columbia's President Bolinger did not
handle this occasion well, because by blatantly attacking Ahmadinejad in
his own school he made him (Ahmadinejad) look like a victim. There were
many interesting points both had to say, and they did not always agree
with each other.
Ana

ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org wrote:
> David:
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> Providing a stage for a polarizing figure such as Ahmadinejad is exactly
> how colleges have faired over the years. How does this preclude not
asking
> difficult questions?
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> Dear XMCArs,
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> I followed from Chile the strange sequence of events at Columbia at
> the international press. I was wondering if somebody wants to comment
> the issues raised by the occasion. At least, for me, it is hard to
> understand the final move made by L. Bollinger: to invite the iranian
> president, and then to attack him verbally. What was that? If he
> really thinks what he says, he should have not invited him, first
> place. But if he made that, to excoriate the guy his institution was
> inviting as a result of context pressure, then he is acting
> hypocritically and using the hate the iranian president raises to
> gain publicity. Too contradictory for me and anything but the way
> academic life and free speech should be handled, in my opinion.
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