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    As an international student, I honestly don’t know how good an indicator the GRE is, at least for students whose…

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Cornell suspends Jewish and pro-Palestinian history professor (UPDATED)

MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY–UPDATED

Given how much federal money is at stake for Cornell, it’s hard not to interpret this incident as a case of “anticipatory obedience.” If the account of the students in the seminar is correct, then the professor, correctly, asked a disruptive student (who was Israeli) to leave the class, not for discriminatory reasons, but because he was a disruptive student. Everything turns on whether that was the case. I have no more information, but I will say, to quote my Grandmother, “this stinks to High Heavens.”

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UPDATE: Professor Cheyfitz has decided to retire. (Thanks to Ruchira Paul for the pointer.)

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