CUNY Trustees Set to Honor Anti-Israel Playwright

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CUNY Trustees Set to Honor Anti-Israel Playwright Do They Dare Accept My Challenge? by Phyllis Chesler NewsRealBlog May 7, 2011 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/990/cuny-trustees-honor-anti-israel-playwright Send Comment RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. Excerpt: As I predicted, CUNY has almost immediately reversed itself. Amidst an internet and email uprising by its faculty and by leading members of the left intelligentsia, the CUNY board of trustees will meet Monday to reconsider its decision to deny an honorary doctorate to playwright Tony Kushner. Benno C. Schmidt Jr., chairman of the CUNY board since 2003, said in a statement that he believed the board had "made a mistake of principle, and not merely of policy," in failing to approve the degree from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at its meeting on Monday. Mr. Schmidt scheduled a meeting for this coming Monday of the board's seven-member executive committee, which has the power to reconsider any board decision that is detrimental to the university. Read the complete original version of this item...
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