the professors who supported the call by Students Against Israeli Apartheid for a debate with the Carleton administration regarding the issue of an academic boycott of Israel. But I’m sad that so few other academics at Carleton have seen fit to stand up for free debate and the exchange of ideas as suggested. Instead, shamefully, Carleton has moved on to harass students involved in Israeli Apartheid Week with veiled threats, and gone so far as to ban a poster that was erroneously and mendaciously claimed to be in violation of the Ontario Human Rights Code.
The struggle to make Carleton a real forum for ideas looks like an uphill battle indeed at the moment. Our administration has chosen to divide us, and to suppress free expression on campus. I, as both an alumnus and a student, am sick at heart at what our institution of higher learning has become.
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