THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Novembel v
39
Did SUNY Mishandle Incident of Prof. Linking Zionism, Racism?
professor who linked
Zionism to racism and
Nazism, has charged that
the school's administration
mishandled the affair and
wrongfully wrapped itself
in a cloak of academic free-
dom.
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The Israeli professor whose
letter last summer to col-
leagues at the State Uni-
versity of New York at
Stony Brook triggered the
current controversy sur-
rounding the teachings of a
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"Academic freedom even
by the definition of the state
of New York carries with it
the notion of academic re-
sponsibility," Selwyn Troen
said in an interview with
the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency last week. "Stony
Brook wrapped itself up in a
banner of academic freedom
arguing that anybody can
say whatever they please
because they have a right to
do so.
"They have not addressed
the issue of academic re-
sponsibility," which, Troen
said, "deems that students
be offered an alternative
viewpoint and afforded a
reasonable opportunity to
develop their own thoughts
on the subject." There "is no
way" the instructor of the
course, Ernest Dube, "fulfil-
led these elementary pre-
cepts," Troen pointed out.
Just prior to returning
to Israel last summer,
Troen charged in a letter
to senior faculty mem-
bers and administration-
officials at the university
that DOe, a Black South
African-born professor,
had "employed his posi-
tion for the propagation
of personal ideology and
racial biases" in teaching
the course, "The Politics
of Racism." Troen asked
for a formal accounting
of the course's teachings.
After the letter was sent,
the university's faculty se-
nate concluded that the
bounds of academic freedom
had not been crossed by
Dube and that there would
be no investigation of his
teachings. It took nearly
three months for the uni-
versity president, John
Marburger, under pressure
from New York state offi-
cials, Jewish community
groups and the academic
community to issue a formal
statement disassociating
the university from the
course's teachings.
Troen predicted that the
issue has not yet been set-
tled, partially because Dube
has received strong support
from the Africana Studies
Department and because
the university has failed to
take strong measures to see
to it that such "sloganeer-
ing," as Troen termed it in
his letter last summer, does
not persist in the univer-
sity's lecture halls.
Troen expressed the hope
that the controversy will
not become a Black-Jewish
issue, insisting that the de-
bate focused on academic
responsibility. He said
Dube should have provided
a broader range of reading
materials on Zionism in-
stead of the one essay he dis-
tributed to students which
accused Israelis of being
Nazis and concluded with a
call to support the Palestine
Congress, an umbrella
group for more than 50
North American pro-PLO
organizations.
According to a univer-
sity official, Dube is listed
in the university direc-
tory as an assistant pro-
fessor of Africana
studies. He received a
scholarship to study psy-
chology at Cornell Uni-
versity where he received
his PhD in cognitive
psychology in 1976. He
became an associate pro-
fessor in the Africana
Studies Department at
Stony Brook in 1977. He
and his family, have be-
come U.S. citizens.
Meanwhile, the univer-
sity official said that the
course, ."The
cism" continues to be an
elective, offered jointly by
the Africana Studies De-
partment and the Political
Science Department.
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