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Washington, R.O. 541-0082 Film Classics Adults $2.50 Fri. thru Sun. Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn in "ADAM'S RIB" Fri. & Sat. 7:30 & 9:30 Sun. 5:30, 7:30 & 9:30 Mon. & Tues. Tracy & Hepburn in "WOMAN OF THE YEAR" 7:20 & 9:30 Wed. & Thurs. Tracy & Hepburn in "PAT & MIKE" 7:30 & 9:30 Holocaust Parallel in Stony Brook Dube Case By REV. FRANKLIN LITTELL National Institute on the Holocaust PHILADELPHIA — The Dube case at the State Uni- versity of New York at Stony Brook raises again the question of where the modern university is going. An article in the New York Times Magazine (Nov. 6) concludes that the univer- sity has become so politicized . . . that its revi- val as an educational in- stitution is doubtful in this generation." Dube is a black from South Africa who has been pumping political prop- aganda into his classes, ex- pressing a political line which is, among other things, anti-Semitic. As we have often noted, the contribution of the mod- ern university to Nazism and its murderous 12 years of empire was massive. In fact, without the trained technologists — lawyers, doctors and theologians, as well as engineers and chemists — the Third Reich could not have functioned at all. The Holocaust would never have occurred. The failure of the great German universities can be assessed in two ways. First, there was the in- dispensable contribution of university-trained men and women to the Nazi machine and its enterprises. Second, there was the failure of the great German univer- sities — before the Nazis took them over, among the best in the world — to prevent the infiltration and corruption of "the republic of learning" by persons unfit to be entrusted with the cus- tody of young minds. There is no reason here to raise questions about SUNY Stony Brook's posit- ive contributions. Rather, the Dube case raises the question: To what are the administration and faculty committed to maintaining the integrity of teaching, the academic discipline, which are essential if aca- DINNER THEATRE AT HYATT REGENCY D DEARBORN presents JIMMY LAUNCE starring in "TRIBUTE" A Comedy by BERNARD SLADE Group Rates and Performances Available Reservations: 593-1234 Fri. & Sat. 8:30 P.M. JIMMY LAUNCE PROductions "THE CLUB 2ND FLOOR CATERING FOR ALL OCCASIONS. AT OUR FAMOUS LOW PRICES French, Jewish, American, International Cuisine X967-3999 Deli Unique [25290 GREENFIELD North of 10 mile Rd. 961-3991 demic freedom is to be more than mere license. Unhappily, as so often the case where anti-Semitism is involved, it has been left largely to the Jewish de- fense agencies and press to raise the questions about Dube. Yet anti-Semitism is only the occasion for a con- frontation: the basic issue is broader. Will the professors, like the professors at Northwestern in the Butz case and the professors at the University of California at San Diego in the Buchner case, flunk their post- doctoral exams? Professors do not always wash out in a crisis. The university at Gottingen, West Germany has recently cancelled the degree of an active Nazi alumnus. The university at Vancouver, British Columbia has re- cently removed from the classroom a professor whose criminal record during the Third Reich was discovered and exposed. Which direction will the professors at Stony Brook take? — the easy way of surrendering academic discipline and integrity, or the hard way of responsibly maintain- ing academic standards? The lazy had it easy with Butz and Buchner: both had tenure. The Dube case is more simple to handle: Dube does not yet have it and is presently up for tenure review. Ernest Dube has taught in the African Studies De- partment at Stony Brook. He holds a PhD from Cor- nell University. Prior to coming to the U.S. he served four years in prison for his activities in the African Na- tional Congress, an organ- ization once led by the great Chief Albert John Luthuli, but subsequently infil- trated and captured by the Communists. Today the ANC strongly -supports the PLO and other terrrorist movements. The documentation of his ideological line comes from his syllabus for a course on "The Politics of Race." In this course the topic was: "Three forms of racism and how they have manifested themselves: Nazism in Germany; apartheid in South Africa; Zionism in Is- rael." Among 12 possible topics for term papers were these: "Zionism is as much racism as Nazism was racism" and "Reactive racism (Dube's term for Zionism) is as bad as any other form of ra- cism." The published bulletin described the course as an analysis of "the role race plays in national policy formulation in the U.S.," and no reading as- signments were given on Zionism at all. Thus Dube's propaganda was the students' only source of information on the subject. Because of protests, the university's president took note of the problem and re- ferred the matter to the executive committee of the Faculty Senate. The com- mittee, as stated by its lib- eral Jewish chairman (the same things happened with Butz at Northwestern), de- livered "an exoneration of Dube." The president and full Senate then acted to uphold the committee find- ings, all levels babbling of "academic freedom." Following this, the Afri- can Studies Department re- leased to the newspapers a bitter attack upon a visiting Israeli professor (a dean at Ben-Gurion University), who was one of those raising the initial question as to Dube's course. The prop- agandistic nature of the course (and apparently of the department as a whole) is indicated by phrases in the press release such as "Israeli imperialism and Zionist outrages against the Palestinian people," and at- tacks on a critic for "the kind of name-calling that seeks to hide the intellec- tual shallowness of his own arguments," etc. Upon pressure from the outside (including New York Governor Cuomo and the Anti-Defamation League), Stony Brook's president issued a state- ment condemning the equa- tion of Zionism and racism. When it was urged that the- Dube case be thoroughly in- vestigated, the executive committee of the Faculty Senate stone-walled, with the chairman stating the case had been investigated "carefully" — a patent falsehood, since the only person heard had been Dube himself. As Prof. Rael Isaac of the City University of New York has pointed out in a careful review of the case, what is sac- rificed here is truth. Aca- demic freedom, like the academic discipline which creates a preserve_ within which the pursuit of truth may flourish, is not an end in itself: it exists for the sake of truth. Is there a place in the dialogue of the "republic of learning" for proponents of the teaching of contempt and terrorism? That the Stony Brook African Studies Department does not respect the rules of the dialogue is evident. On another occasion a prominent professor in the department, LeRoi Jones aka Amiri Baraka, in a campus meeting proclaimed that "Israel is a running dog for U.S. Imperialism." In Columbus Circle or on the street corner, in an open political debate, such a statement might be false but privileged. In the aca- demic community, like Dube's propaganda, it is out of order. The problem is that the professors, many of whom are doubtful about the im- portance of truth anyway, simply float with the spirit of the times. Right now it is a la mode to attack America and be titillated by ter- rorism. But how can the senior members of the academe, after the experi- ence of the great univer- sities of the Weimar Repub- lic, be so sure that the infil- trators and disloyalists of today's faculties will not comprise the terrorist gov- ernments of tomorrow? - The Holocaust is, in a fundamental sense, just as serious a credibility crisis for the amoral modern uni- versity as it is for a degen- erate Christendom. And the professors are just as back- ward as the churchmen in honestly facing the implica- tions of that truth. Druze Warning for Lebanon JERUSALEM (JTA) — Shaikah Amin Tarif, spiritual leader of Israeli Druze, urged the Druze community in Lebanon not to permit the infiltration of anti-Israel elements into their ranks or into the terri- tory they control in Leba- non. 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