Friday, May 02, 2008

Coatsworth of 'Hitler, Too' Fame Named Columbia Dean   [Candace de Russy]

John Coatsworth has just been appointed dean of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. The editors of the New York Sun, with good reason, are appalled. They lambaste those responsible for this appointment and summarize Coatsworth's activism "on the far-out fringe" as follows:

The persons whose judgment is really called into question here is not just Mr. Coatsworth but the president and trustees of Columbia, who have now elevated to a deanship an Israel-hating apologist for the Communists who is on record as being willing to welcome Hitler to campus. They announced the decision just in time for Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The university leadership could learn a thing or two from David Feith, who edits the student newspaper, the Current. In an editorial, he recommends that Columbia honor some of the world's bravest dissidents with honorary degrees — especially in the year of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the campus. Dean Coatsworth, what say you of this idea?

05/02 01:42 PMShare