An alternative Re: [xmca] Columbia events

As a contrast to Ahmadinejad, either on "60 minutes" or at Columbia, it
could be worth looking at interviews of Iran's Ambassador to the UN that
have been on the Charlie Rose show.

I actually haven't seen Charlie Rose in quite a while now, and I don't
know if the interviews that I'm remembering are with the current
Ambassador, or even if they happened before Ahmadinejad's election, but
the Ambassador whom I remember seemed very reasonable in cogently
articulating viewpoints and positions radically different from what we
hear in the US, but without the ideological nonsense that we hear from
Ahmadinejad.

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Mike Cole wrote:

> I agree Ana -- If you have not seen the interview he did on 60 minutes,
> check
> it out; replay of the same stuff, but in this case, a recorded dialogue of
> some
> length. The reported attacked in the same way the President of Columbia did,
> in this case at Ahmadinejad's presidential house in Tehran. A's reactions
> were
> also the same; bemusement at the presuppositions in some of the questions
> (or outrght attacks) in HIS democratically elected spot. He said some things
> I thought made him look bad. But he was also provided a lot for viewers to
> think
> about that they have not been able to think about before.
>
> So yes, Eric, this is JUST what American colleges and universities should
> do, in that
> we should expose our students to a more multi-perspectival view of the world
> FOR THEIR
> OWN GOOD (after all, we praise ourselves for our well informad votership).
> But I do not
> like the aggressive style of the American questioners because I think it
> creates, though
> its heat, mistakes on A's part that discredit the very important things that
> this man has to tell us from
> HIS point of view (which I am neither defending or attacking here).
>
> I that sense, they are being effective tools of official American policty,
> not critical thinkers. That is
> not what universities are for.
> mike
> mike
>
> On 9/25/07, Ana Marjanovic-Shane <ana@zmajcenter.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> eric
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David Preiss
>>> <davidpreiss@uc. To: Activity Mind
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>>> 09/24/2007 09:36
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>>>
>>> Dear XMCArs,
>>>
>>> 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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