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Titolo: Fascismo e Antifascismo a Chicago

L'universita' DuPaul ha licenziato un'altro professore "colpevole" di
aver sostenuto Norman Finkelstein.   Ma sia la comunita' studentesca,
l'associazione dei professori
stanno difendendo la propria liberta' e integrita' accademica.
Fascismo:
Professor supportive of Finkelstein is fired, despite strong reviews
June 12th, 2007
DePaul Professor Who Supported Finkelstein Also Was Denied Tenure
Chronicle of Higher Ed. June 12
By SIERRA MILLMAN
DePaul professor who supported Finkelstein also was denied tenure
Another professor at DePaul University was rejected for tenure at the
same time as Norman G. Finkelstein, and she believes her advocacy for
the embattled political scientist may have derailed her career.
"There is no good explanation for why I was denied tenure," Mehrene E.
Larudee, an assistant professor of international studies, said in an
interview on Monday. "So one has to look elsewhere."
Praised as "outstanding" by the dean of her college and recommended
unanimously by distinguished faculty peers during the tenure process,
Ms. Larudee was 19 days away from becoming director of DePaul's
program in international studies when she learned on Friday of the
decision against her.
She and the program's current director, Michael A. McIntyre, had been
discussing the responsibilities she would be assuming when he
received, via e-mail, a letter from DePaul's president, the Rev.
Dennis H. Holtschneider.
"Hey, this is great, I'll get to congratulate Mehrene right now," Mr.
McIntyre recalls thinking, until he read the letter. "Our jaws just
dropped, hit the floor, when we saw the decision went the other way,"
he said.
In the letter, Father Holtschneider said that the University Board on
Faculty Promotion and Tenure had decided against awarding tenure to
Ms. Larudee and that he accepted that decision.
Ms. Larudee suggested that her active participation in a committee
that formed to defend Mr. Finkelstein may have biased administrators
against her own tenure case.
A university official denied that there was any connection between the
two cases. "I want to emphasize that our faculty-review process
assures that every case is evaluated independently, on its own
merits," said Denise Mattson, a spokeswoman. "No cases are linked in
any way."
According to Father Holtschneider's letter, Ms. Larudee demonstrated a
"strong service record" but would not receive tenure because of "mixed
teaching evaluations, at times below the departmental mean, a thin
record of scholarship."
Mr. McIntyre declined to comment on whether Ms. Larudee's advocacy
work may have affected the tenure decision, but he dismissed the
tenure board's reasoning and said, "I'm just shocked that unanimous
recommendations would be overturned with a sentence that doesn't even
scan grammatically and has no real substance."
He confirmed Ms. Larudee's account that Charles S. Suchar, dean of the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, had given her the strongest
possible endorsement in her most recent merit review, in March, and
said Mr. Suchar had approved her as the international-studies
program's next director. "That indicated the level of his confidence
in her tenure case," he said.
Mr. Suchar was not available for comment on Monday.
Anne Clark Bartlett, who is president of the universitywide Faculty
Council and a professor of English, said she was surprised by the
decision. It's "fairly unusual for someone to be turned down at a
higher level after being upheld at a lower level" of the tenure
process, she said. "I think people are still coming to terms with what
this means," she said.
Gil Gott, who is chair of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences'
Faculty Governance Council and an associate professor of international
studies, said in an e-mail message that the decision against Ms.
Larudee was "devastating to international studies." Mr. Gott
emphasized that he was commenting as an individual and not as a
university official.
While Mr. Suchar wrote a letter in favor of Ms. Larudee's tenure, he
had recommended that the university reject Mr. Finkelstein's bid (The
Chronicle, June 11).
Mr. Finkelstein, who is the son of Holocaust survivors, has generated
controversy through his criticism of Israeli policy toward the
Palestinians. He has accused some prominent Jews and Jewish groups of
exploiting the Holocaust for personal gain and has publicly feuded
with Alan M. Dershowitz, a professor of law at Harvard University who
is an ardent defender of Israel. Mr. Dershowitz sent members of
DePaul's law and political-science faculties a dossier attacking Mr.
Finkelstein last fall (The Chronicle, April 5).
The Faculty Governance Council voted unanimously last November to send
a letter to administrators to "express the council's dismay at
Professor Dershowitz's interference in Finkelstein's tenure and
promotion case."
Mr. Gott said on Monday that he and others had been "assured that the
integrity of the process would be protected."
"However," he continued, "to my knowledge, no specific protections
were introduced to remedy already-existing problems, such as any
lingering false impressions that Alan Dershowitz's packet may have
created in the minds of faculty members or administrators who served
on or influenced decision-making bodies in the case."
On Monday, about two dozen students convened at Father Holtschneider's
office and waited in a conference room during the day until the
president met with them about the decision to deny Mr. Finkelstein
tenure, Ms. Mattson said. "They shared a frank exchange of views
regarding this year's tenure decisions," she said. The president told
the students he would not contravene the University Board on Faculty
Promotion and Tenure's decision.
Ms. Larudee says her own support of Mr. Finkelstein is consistent with
the university's commitment to social justice and humanitarian issues.
"I'm devoted to these principles," she said.
Ms. Larudee is a non-Jewish member of the Chicago chapter of Jewish
Voice for Peace, a national organization that seeks to influence
American foreign policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In
late March, she joined a committee to defend Mr. Finkelstein against
attacks and began contacting national figures who might help.
Now she's looking for help, but a meeting she requested with the
university's provost stalled initially because his staff said he would
only meet with her alone. Late Monday, she received a message from the
provost indicating he would meeting with her and a colleague. She says
she won't accept the tenure decision: "I expect to fight."
Antifascismo:
http://www.finkelgate.com/
DePaul Students Protest for Academic Freedom
Continuing an uphill battle with the DePaul University administration,
student and community groups will gather at 55 E. Jackson (Jackson and
Wabash) tomorrow 13 June 2007 at 11 a.m. for a rally, in a plan to
escalate pressure on the nation's largest Catholic university. The
protest is in support of academic freedom, as well as tenure for
Professors Norman Finkelstein and Mehrene Larudee. Students have been
sitting in the executive offices of DePaul President Fr. Dennis
Holtschneider since Monday morning at 9:00 a.m.
Upset over DePaul's denial of tenure to Professors Finkelstein and
Larudee, and after a meeting between 30 student leaders and Fr.
Holtschneider, students have taken action to defend academic freedom,
under attack by the university administration. While the students
presented Fr. Holtschneider with a petition of over 700 signatures
calling for the reversal of the decision and questioned the legitimacy
of the university's process, the DePaul President flatly rejected
their demands and insisted that he would not reevaluate his position.
Up until this point, the university has accommodated the sit-in,
though informed the students that they must abandon by 5:00 p.m.
tomorrow. The students are determined to hold their ground.
The faculty and students will be meeting tomorrow to discuss the
appeals process and future steps. The organizations that have called
for this protest include DePaul student organizations Students for
Justice in Palestine, DePaul Students Against the War, Society for
International Affairs, Model United Nations, Campaign to End the Death
Penalty, as well as outside groups Palestine Solidarity Committee,
Council on American Islamic Relations, and International Socialist
Organization.
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=1088
DePaul chief may face vote of no confidence
HIGHER EDUCATION | Tenure denials of two profs upset many
06.13.2007 | Chicago Sun-Times
BY DAVE NEWBART Staff Reporter 
dnew...@suntimes.com
Faculty at DePaul University are considering taking votes of no
confidence in the school president and other officials in the wake of
tenure denials issued to two faculty members. Separate faculty
councils are meeting today and Thursday to discuss the rejections of
assistant professors Norman Finkelstein and Mehrene Larudee despite
strong support from their academic departments and a College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences committee.
The tenure bid of Finkelstein, son of Holocaust survivors, had drawn
widespread attention because of his suggestions that some Jews had
exploited their suffering. Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz
criticized Finkelstein's scholarship.
Larudee, who was to take over as chair of international studies,
helped organize support for Finkelstein and now wonders if that hurt
her.
Some DePaul faculty said they were upset the university did not
support recommendations from faculty who work most closely with the
two professors.
Gil Gott, chair of the college's Faculty Governance Council, said it
was particularly surprising that Larudee was turned down because she
had the unanimous support of her department, the college personnel
committee and also Dean Charles Suchar.
He said faculty could debate no-confidence actions this week.
DePaul spokeswoman Denise Mattson noted that President Dennis
Holtschneider simply accepted recommendations of the University Board
on Promotion and Tenure to deny tenure.
Meanwhile, about two dozen students have staged a sit-in outside
Holtschneider's office, demanding Finkelstein be given tenure.
About eight students slept there Monday night.

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