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...This will, I fear, be your last opportunity to make good at Harvard,” he wrote to Wilcox on March 17, “for if your grades in April fail to meet the requirements, the Board could do nothing but request you to withdraw...
Later that day the Ad Board allowed Cyril Wilcox to withdraw from Harvard College due to “ill health.” He never returned to Cambridge...
Administrators at ASU’s admissions office said that they were not aware of Strauss’ theft case before his application to ASU, and they refused to comment on whether Strauss will be forced to withdraw from the college due to his plea...
...McCarthyist turn, a recently founded website called Campus Watch encourages students to report professors who criticize Israel. The emergent divestment movement which hopes to pressure Israel to end its military occupation has met with similarly unfair tactics. As students on campuses across the country have called for universities to withdraw U.S. subsidies and corporate investments supporting the highly repressive policies of the Israeli government in the Palestinian territories, these students have been called anti-Semites. This is the worst kind of slur. Student critics of Israeli policies are no more anti-Semitic than opponents of apartheid were anti-Afrikaner...
...students of Middle Eastern descent. At the University of Arizona in Tucson, the dean’s office reported that since Sept. 11 at least 39 Arab students pulled out of their courses, citing fear as a primary factor. The University of Colorado in Denver had 45 Arab students withdraw. Perhaps it’s time for these college officials to draft a more honest, fair and inclusive anti-intimidation letter. Students of all political leanings and ethnic backgrounds would be the better...