THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 9, 1983 33 BILL MEYER MUSIC 355-2721 Cuomo Hits SUNY Faculty on Biased Actions of Prof NEW YORK (JTA) — New York Governor Mario Cuomo issued a denuncia- tion last week of the faculty of the State University (SUNY) at Stony Brook for failing to openly oppose the teachings of a faculty member linking Zionism and racism. -FIRESTONE JEWELRY Wholesale Diamonds 8 Jewelry Remounting Jewelry 8 Watch Repair SUITE 318 ADVANCE BLDG . 23077 Greenfield at 9 Mile (313) 557-1860 Cuomo also said that the teaching of Prof. Ernest Dube was "intellectually dishonest and pernicious because it is designed to serve as a justification for genocide in the form of a completion of the 'final solu- tion' annihilation of the state of Israel." A spokesperson told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the governor issued the statement after members of the anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith met with the governor's staff in New York City, but stressed THE HURTIG FAMILY wishes all their friends and customers a HAPPY and HEALTHY NEW YEAR CUSTOM BLIND DISTRIBUTORS, INC. that he had issued the Stony Brook "did not pub- statement independently of licly disagree with the con- that meeting because "he tent of the statement" feels very strongly" about exonerating Dube. The gov- the development. ernor said academic free- Dube was exonerated dom "should not release on Aug. 17 by the execu- anyone from the responsi- tive committee of the uni- bility to express appropriate versity Faculty Senate, moral repugnance." He which ruled that the added that academic free- South African-born pro- dom "certainly does not re- fessor had not breached strict their freedom to do so, academic ethics or the nor does it demand silence bounds of academic in the face of twisted logic freedom in his teaching that does damage." of a course on "The Poli- The faculty investiga- tics of Race." tion followed a charge by A university official said Selwyn Troen, a visiting a report will be made next week to the full faculty Senate and action against Dube was still possible. Dube is presently on vaca- tion. Declaring he was not cer- tain what the exoneration of Dube by the faculty com- mittee meant, Cuomo said that if the report of that committee "is posited in such a way as to make it possible to construe its meaning as an endorsement of the doctrine" equating Zionism with racism "or the soundness of its reasoning, then I reject that report." Cuomo then declared he was "disappointed" that more faculty members of There is a certain dignity of manners absolutely necessary, to make even the most valuable character either respected or respect- able. —Lord Chesterfield 855-9385 professor from the Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, who sent a letter to university officials as- serting that Dube "em- ployed his position for the propagation of per- sonal ideology and racist biases." In his letter asking for a formal investigation of Dr. Dube's teaching on race, Troen said he was acting on a complaint from a student and submitted Dube's course materials as evi- dence. Troen has since re- turned to Israel. 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