BREAKING NEWS: Finkelstein receives support; speech back on
Posted: March 23, 2:00 a.m.
by Miranda Neubauer
Senior Writer
News | 3/20/07
Posted online at 2:04 AM EST on 3/23/07
Middle East scholar Norman Finkelstein will speak on campus after all, now that two student groups agreed to sponsor the event, Assistant Director of Student Activities Sarah Bordeleau confirmed yesterday.
"You can never be sure around here, but it looks like the pieces are all falling together, finally," Kevin Conway '09, who invited Finkelstein, said.
Finkelstein, a political science professor at DePaul University, was slated to speak next month until he lost the sponsorships of the newly renamed Students for a Democratic Society (formerly the Radical Student Alliance) and the Arab Culture Club two weeks ago.
Conway received $970 for the event, then co-sponsored by SDS and ACC, from the Union Finance Board several weeks ago. But when SDS announced that it would not sponsor the event any longer because Conway, a former member of the club, had invited Finkelstein without the club's consent, it became unclear whether Finkelstein would visit at all. Following SDS's announcement, ACC also pulled its support because, Farrah Bdour '07, ACC co-president, said they wouldn't sponsor the event on its own.
In order to receive F-Board funding, Conway needed club support.
The World Can't Wait club-which seeks to promote student activism, social and political awareness-will co-sponsor the event with ACC on its originally scheduled date, Tuesday, April 23 in the Rappaporte Treasure Hall, Conway said.
He added that Dr. Sara Roy, a senior research scholar at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, will introduce Finkelstein.
Finkelstein said this week he is "pretty confident that this time [the event] will go through," adding that "Brandeis is, after all, a university before it is a Jewish university." He said he plans to assert during his speech that former President Jimmy Carter's latest book, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, is not so controversial. Carter addressed the campus last January regarding his highly-criticized book.
"You can never be sure around here, but it looks like the pieces are all falling together, finally," Kevin Conway '09, who invited Finkelstein, said.
Finkelstein, a political science professor at DePaul University, was slated to speak next month until he lost the sponsorships of the newly renamed Students for a Democratic Society (formerly the Radical Student Alliance) and the Arab Culture Club two weeks ago.
Conway received $970 for the event, then co-sponsored by SDS and ACC, from the Union Finance Board several weeks ago. But when SDS announced that it would not sponsor the event any longer because Conway, a former member of the club, had invited Finkelstein without the club's consent, it became unclear whether Finkelstein would visit at all. Following SDS's announcement, ACC also pulled its support because, Farrah Bdour '07, ACC co-president, said they wouldn't sponsor the event on its own.
In order to receive F-Board funding, Conway needed club support.
The World Can't Wait club-which seeks to promote student activism, social and political awareness-will co-sponsor the event with ACC on its originally scheduled date, Tuesday, April 23 in the Rappaporte Treasure Hall, Conway said.
He added that Dr. Sara Roy, a senior research scholar at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, will introduce Finkelstein.
Finkelstein said this week he is "pretty confident that this time [the event] will go through," adding that "Brandeis is, after all, a university before it is a Jewish university." He said he plans to assert during his speech that former President Jimmy Carter's latest book, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, is not so controversial. Carter addressed the campus last January regarding his highly-criticized book.
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jason
posted 3/23/07 @ 11:50 AM EST
Why is Pipes a "neo-conservative analyst" while Finkelstein is just a "scholar" and not a "radical leftist scholar"? Either label both or neither; this is just poor and biased journalism. (Continued…)
Dani Klein
posted 3/27/07 @ 3:30 PM EST
One major error about this article.
In the first line, Finkelstein is called a Middle East scholar. Finkelstein is more of a Middle East commentator. (Continued…)
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