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Student editors may be misled by the approach of Smith and other Holocaust ! revisionists, says Lawrence Jeffries of Atlanta's Center for Democratic Renewal (CDR) which monitors extremist groups. "They don't present themselves in a Heil Hitler sort of way," he explains. "They seek to be very intellectual in their presentation of these arguments." The CDR's goal, says Jeffries, "is to rip the sheets off these people and expose them for what they are -- anti-Semitic extremists trying to redefine what actually happened 50 years...
...atmosphere of academic freedom on most U.S. campuses, she says, students support the principle of free expression and are more likely to publish views that are repugnant or blatantly false. Also, says Lipstadt, "there may be a lot of young people who don't know about the Holocaust. They may wonder if there isn't something to these arguments." Indeed, a 1992 Roper survey found that 39% of U.S. high school students -- and 28% of adults -- didn't know what the Holocaust...
Georgetown University's media board may well have had those statistics in mind when it censured the Voice, the school's weekly newsmagazine, for running the Smith ad. It not only required the publication to print an apology and donate the $200 received for the ad to the Holocaust Museum but, to further their education, ordered the three top editors to tour the museum with a Georgetown theology professor...
...York Film Critics Circle named Steven Spielberg's Holocaust epic Schindler's List Best Picture but somewhat perversely gave New Zealand-born Jane Campion the award for Best Director for The Piano. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association likewise divided its Best Picture and Best Director awards between the two. For its part, the National Board of Review named Schindler Best Picture but cited Martin Scorsese as Best Director for The Age of Innocence...
...real-life murder and starvation of more than 6 million Ukrainians by Stalin's bureaucrats in 1932-33. Not many Americans will see this picture, which opened last week in one New York City theater; stark, iconic, black-and- white Ukrainian movies, especially when their subject is "the hidden Holocaust," have limited mall appeal. But in its meticulously brutal imagery, in its theme of humanity enslaved and justice outraged, in its Manichaean categorizing of people as holy victims or soulless villains, Famine-33 has important similarities to Hollywood-financed pictures coming this Christmas to a 'plex near...