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...Supreme Court snubbed a New York professor who was removed from his post at City College after igniting a firestorm of criticism over allegations that some of his public pronouncements were anti-Semitic. A federal appeals court upheld a judge?s ruling which restored Leonard Jeffries as black studies department chairman because his removal -- for a 1991 speech charging that Jews had a history of oppressing blacks -- violated his First Amendment rights. But the Justices today ordered the New York federal court to restudy its ruling in light of a separate May Supreme Court decision, which says a public employee...
Perhaps it will be another carefully directed impetuousity from Professor Mansfield. Perhaps an offensive speaker will be invited (we haven't hosted a Nation of Islam speaker for some time). Whatever issue around which the firestorm centers, it will likely have much less effect on the lives of undergraduates than would a decision to replace the Core with distribution requirements or mandate English proficiency for teaching fellows...
Washington -- Marine Corps Commandant General CARL MUNDY JR. caused a firestorm by trying to bar married Marine recruits; now he's feeling the heat for saying on 60 Minutes that minority groups don't swim, shoot or read compasses as well as whites. Mundy has apologized and asked to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus. Nevertheless, the Navy Secretary has removed Mundy from a study he was heading on -- ironically -- the status of minorities in the Corps. The White House is set to oust him if he makes one more mistake...
Powell's invitation has ignited a campus-wide firestorm of controversy because of his past support for the military's ban on homosexuals. By honoring Powell, Reuss said, Harvard is condoning the military's discriminatory policy, an issue he said is worsened by the University's allegedly poor and discriminatory treatment of its workers...
Voss's charge--which was denied by security department officials--and similar allegations by six other former and current guards touched off a firestorm. It embarrassed then-General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, whose office conducted an investigation in which it interviewed no guards and produced no written report. It also led to a new probe this year by current General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall--an investigation which appears to be in its final stages...