Academic Freedom Under Attack? - UCSB Students Protest ADL Visit over Alleged Anti-Semitic Email
Source: independent.com Posted By: White V...5660 days ago
A perceived threat to academic freedom so inflamed a group of UCSB students on Thursday, April 30, that not even getting stuck in an elevator could stop them. A well-dressed group of students descended upon the office of Chancellor Henry Yang in UCSB’s Cheadle Hall to discuss charges of anti-Semitism levied against sociology professor William Robinson, who sparked controversy by sending an email to students in his Sociology of Globalization class in which he compared Israel’s occupation of Gaza to....