Word: morgane
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...York Post has never been a particularly moderate voice in the debate over Leonard Jeffries--the City College professor whose allegedly anti-Semitic, anti-white and anti-gay statements have been making headlines for months. But when reports emerged that Jeffries threatened the life of a Crimson reporter, Eliot Morgan, the Post went whole hog with front-page stories and lengthy editorials. Here's a sampling from a staff editorial that appeared yesterday...
...latest evidence about Jeffries' character revolves around the death threat he allegedly leveled against a Harvard Crimson editor who'd interviewed him: Eliot Morgan, Jeffries was apparently worried that Morgan would detail the professor's hostility toward Jews; no doubt, he was also concerned that he had been a bit too candid in describing Harvard's highly esteemed African-American Studies chairman, Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as a "punk and a faggor." Jeffries, it appears, both threatened Morgan and had his own "bodyguard" seize a tape-recording Morgan had made of the interview...
...After discovering that some of the people who run The Crimson have Jewish-sounding surnames, he ordered his bodyguard to take Morgan's tapes and threatened to kill him if he published the interview...
This may seem ridiculously self-evident, but last Monday (before news of Jeffries's vicious treatment of Morgan became public), CUNY's board of trustees voted to renew his appointment as department chair for eight more months. They did not censure him. They did not fire him. In effect, they rewarded him, and again provided him with a forum to air his racist, vitriolic pap thinly masquerading as scholarship...
Jeffries's power to incite hatred, his anti-Semitism and his anti-gay attitudes should be recognized as hateful non-scholarship, not defended under the grounds of academic freedom. They should be protected by law but not by public salary. (His treatment of Morgan, of course, should not be protected...