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...Capital Gang” could have used events at my alma mater for one of their “outrages of the week” every week for the past three years. A particularly glaring scandal took place in December when the Concordia Student Union (CSU) banned the Jewish student association Hillel without due process...
...clear: I support freedom of speech. Students had legitimate reasons to demonstrate against Netanyahu—but September 9, 2002 was a violent event where those attending the speech faced physical harassment. What’s more, many on the CSU executive openly supported the rioters for shutting down a “war criminal,” and the council immediately offered to pay legal fees for those charged with violence. Meanwhile, the victims of aggression, who were taunted with anti-Jewish remarks, kicked and spit on were ignored...
That view changed dramatically last week when Edmund Stoiber, the premier of Bavaria and the CSU's chairman, announced he was a candidate to oppose Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in national elections this September. Within five days, Stoiber's main opponent for the job, CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel, announced she was dropping out of the race, leaving it to Stoiber to carry the conservative banner...
...political science at the University of Göttingen. "It looks as if the conservatives have a very good chance." A poll published last week in the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel said that if voting took place last Sunday, Germans would have given 39% of their votes to the CSU-CDU ticket and only 38% to Schröder's Social Democrats...
...image of being inexperienced in government. She took over as CDU chairwoman only two years ago, when the party became mired in a slush-fund scandal. (Last week Stoiber became entangled in a campaign-funding controversy about the way his party raised money by selling subscriptions to the CSU newspaper. A prosecutor in Munich quickly said the party had not broken...