Letter to the Editor

By The Maroon Staff / January 28, 2003

To the Editor: In the last two and a half years, college campuses have become hotbeds for political activism related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Representatives and supporters of Israel throughout North America have noticed that anti-Israel activists have initiated a new campaign at the beginning of each school year featuring a new “buzz word” around...

Letters to the Editor

By The Maroon Staff / January 17, 2003

Sharon’s position unsubstantiated To the Editor: Isaac Wolf’s story (“American Profs Take Stand in West Bank,” January 10) on the professors who signed the open letter warning about possible expulsion of the Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip quotes the deputy Israeli consul general to the Midwest (David Roet) as saying that...

Letter to the Editor

By The Maroon Staff / January 14, 2003

Bush right to renominate Pickering To the Editor: Joshua Steinman’s ramblings (“Bush’s Southern Strategy,” January 10) condemning President Bush for re-nominating Charles Pickering to a federal judgeship are so full of half-truths, distortions, and outright lies that it’s hard to know where to begin. Some are just too ridiculous to even respond to, such as...

Letter to the Editor

By The Maroon Staff / January 10, 2003

To the Editor: I recently graduated from the University of Chicago (Political Science ’01) and am used to weighty pronouncements emanating from Professor Wellstones and their pot-smoking or croissant-eating disciples at the University of Chicago. When will these professors (re)gain a veneer of academic integrity? It was enough to be preached to while trying to...

Letter to the Editor

By The Maroon Staff / November 19, 2002

To the Editor: I am disappointed that a man with a name so promising as “Lovejoy” should repeat hackneyed arguments by the Israeli far-right on the possibilities for Palestinian nationhood. All Lovejoy aroused was my disgust and pity for his total lack of curiosity and analysis. The Israeli right wing likes to claim that Jordan...

Letter to the Editor: Allegations of anti-Semitism

By Online Editor / November 15, 2002

To the Editor: We are writing to express our concern about the allegations of a climate of anti-Semitism on the University of Chicago campus. We question a core assumption behind these allegations—that criticism of Israeli policies must be equivalent to anti-Semitism. As a diverse group of students engaged in debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we...

Letter to the Editor

By The Maroon Staff / November 12, 2002

Morgenstern gets it wrong To the Editor: Josh Morgenstern’s Viewpoints article (“Take responsibility for words,” November 8, 2002) is an embarrassment to this university and those who are educated by it. His writing shows selective research and a complete lack of understanding for the situation surrounding Rashid Khalidi and the Web site campus-watch.org. I hope...

Letters to the Editor

By The Maroon Staff / November 8, 2002

Accusations on Campus Watch To the Editor: We are appalled at irresponsible allegations of anti-Semitism and “abuse of power” against faculty of the University. These charges and insinuations—made on Campuswatch.org and in other contexts—have been aimed at Rashid Khalidi, Professor of History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; at Holly Shissler, Assistant Professor in NELC;...

Letters to the editor

By The Maroon Staff / November 5, 2002

Listen to all voices on Israel To the Editor: As it should be, I don’t know what religion, if any, Professor Ada Holly Shissler subscribes to. I assume she is not Jewish, for in that case she would have been called a “self-hating Jew,” the other easy label that is put on critics of Israel’s...

Letters to the Editor

By The Maroon Staff / November 1, 2002

Latin America’s global role To the Editor: For most of the late 20th century, Latin America was justly considered an unstable region where democracy failed to prove itself as a stabilizing political force. Dictatorship, authoritarianism, and coercion seemed to go hand-in-hand with attempts towards democracy, fluctuating back in forth in unpredictable ways. Argentina’s Peron, Chile’s...

Letter to the editor: Singapore’s internal affairs

By The Maroon Staff / October 24, 2002

To the Editor: On college campuses everywhere, a cottage industry exists around the championing of causes big and small, current and obscure. Normally, apathy guides me blissfully past the protesters. Today, however, was different. I read in the Maroon that a loose coalition of student groups, including Amnesty International, South Asia Watch, Samahan, and Students...

Letter to the Editor

By The Maroon Staff / October 21, 2002

To the Editor: The last paragraph of John Lovejoy’s recent article “Why We Should Trust Bush” begins by pointing out that his “argument sounds simple.” This is a drastic understatement. His “argument” is not only simplistic; it is dead wrong, based on limited or outright incorrect evidence. It represents a highly dangerous way of thinking...