Word: arc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attention has only just been drawn to a letter published by The Crimson on November 13th, in which the Dean of the Divinity School [Ronald Theimann] explains why the School refused to host the conference I was organizing, "Apartheid's Arc and the Palestinian Uprising: Making the Connections." In the interests of accuracy--and honesty--it demands a response...
Your articles and editorials regarding the conference, "Apartheid's Arc and the Palestinian Uprising: Making the Connections," have spawned an important discussion of the basic issue of free speech at the University. I am writing to correct the record concerning our decision not to approve the request to hold the conference at the Divinity School and, moreover, to affirm the School's commitment to the exercise of free speech throughout the University...
...example of the last case is "Apartheid's Arc," a forum on Israel and South Africa that a group of pro-Palestinian activists planned to hold at the Divinity School. After Divinity School Dean Ronald Thiemann correctly rejected the organizers' request to hold the conference on campus, the conference was moved to another location...
...might not have been happy with Apartheid's Arc, but we probably would have learned something...
ISRAEL is a very emotional issue for many Jews, including myself. It isn't easy to hear Israel associated with South Africa. I hate to hear of Israeli soldiers abusing commonly held standards of human rights. And I know that I would feel uncomfortable at Apartheid's Arc...