Apparently, the president of my undergraduate Alma Mater, Northwestern University, resigned today, Newsmax is indicating that it is after GOP pressure... I gather in the form of funding cuts, etc. as a result of their antisemitic positions and the fallout from the riots in 2023.
What a difference several decades makes. For the longest time since I attended there, the Jewish community had a strong presence. The Binai Brith Hillel foundation was doinant on campus. Now, I see that NU has a campus in QATAR of all places. WOW! That would never have happened when I was there.
Then again, NU was the home of disgraced Electrical Engineering Assoc. Prof. Arthur Butz, who wrote the book "The Hoax of the 20th Century," in which he claims the Holocaust never happened. I was attending NU right when he published that book. Oh, the frenzy that ensued. At the time, he shared a double office suite with my EE professor. Not for long. My prof got out, leaving Butz on his own. They were afraid the office suite would be firebombed, Never was, though, Butz was "tenured" so they couldn't fire him. But, IIRC, he never made it to "full professor..." just "Associate prof."
"Whatsoever Things are true," indeed.
What a difference several decades makes. For the longest time since I attended there, the Jewish community had a strong presence. The Binai Brith Hillel foundation was doinant on campus. Now, I see that NU has a campus in QATAR of all places. WOW! That would never have happened when I was there.
Then again, NU was the home of disgraced Electrical Engineering Assoc. Prof. Arthur Butz, who wrote the book "The Hoax of the 20th Century," in which he claims the Holocaust never happened. I was attending NU right when he published that book. Oh, the frenzy that ensued. At the time, he shared a double office suite with my EE professor. Not for long. My prof got out, leaving Butz on his own. They were afraid the office suite would be firebombed, Never was, though, Butz was "tenured" so they couldn't fire him. But, IIRC, he never made it to "full professor..." just "Associate prof."
"Whatsoever Things are true," indeed.
