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Re: "Giving in to the Mob"
Dear Mr. Cohen, Why did you wait until the controversy was over to write "Giving into the Mob?" Where were you and The Washington Post when the phone was ringing off the hook, the e-mails were pouring in and the threats were piling up? Where were you when Bill O'Reilly was inciting viewers by telling them "not to do anything foolish?" Where were you when calls were coming from frightened parents who, while appreciating the first amendment's majesty, demanded that we protect their children? We had every intention of proceeding with the event until the threats became more than a small college can handle. The significant damage is that hundreds of students who planned to protest Mr. Churchill's views are now left to wonder why bullying and intimidation prevented them from exercising their own right to speak. Even knowing this would happen, we still had to cancel the event. When will you be editorializing about the harm that ideologically-driven media celebrities can visit upon educational institutions? It would have been useful for you and the Washington Post to speak out in defense of America's freedoms. But instead of condemning those who seek to silence unpopular opinions, you condemn us for taking seriously the safety of our students and our community. It was your fight we were fighting. Where were you? Sincerely yours, Joan Hinde Stewart |
Upcoming Events9/06 - Emerson Gallery Pr... 9/07 - Catholic Mass 9/07 - Community Church P... More ...News Highlights Program in New York Students Visit New York Historical Society MuseumStudents in Hamilton's Program in New York City visited the N.Y. Historical Society Museum on Aug. 29 to see the Plague in Gotham! exhibit. The exhibit focused on cholera in New York City in 1832, in which a mixture of wretched environmental conditions coupled with false beliefs about the science of transmission (that cholera was not contagious and that it befell those of dissolute moral character) contributed to the epidemic.More ...  Domack Presents Keynote Lecture at 33rd Annual International Geological CongressEugene Domack, the J.W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, gave an invited keynote talk at the 33rd Annual International Geological Congress meeting in Oslo, Norway, in August. His talk was titled "Chronologic Constraints on Deglaciation of the Antarctic Continental Shelf, A Review of Radiocarbon Methods and Applications." For nine days 6,000 scientists from 113 countries took part in lively discussions within almost every conceivable aspect of geology. The abstract text of Domack's talk follows.More ... |
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