The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 4, 2002 -- 7 WEBSITE Continued from Page 1 ty professor of Middle East and Asian language and culture, referred to the website as a "hit list," targeting inno- cent members of higher education. "I don't know why I am worthy of having a dossier," Dabashi said. This is not the first time Dabashi said he has suffered because of the Middle East Forum. Since this summer, his undesired connection to the group has made him the victim of "racist and obscene" harassment - his comput- er was hacked and spammed e-mails were sent from his Columbia account, he said. He added that he received obscene phone calls against him and his students. Earlier this week, Campus Watch announced changes to its format by including professors' dossiers under its survey of institutions section. The content of both sections remains unchanged, Pipes said. While the website has attracted national attention, Cole said he has no plans to change his teaching tactics or opinions. "I am not someone who can be intimidated. I have always treated all my students with respect and fairness and have good to excellent teaching evaluations,"he said. Cole is concerned about the affect Campus Watch will have on students who report professors' behavior, he said. "To any degree that they can suborn. a student to actually spy and send reports to a dossier on a member of the university community, they have deformed that student's character and pushed him or her to do something essentially undemocratic and anti-intel- lectual. That would be a very great shame," he said. Since he said he doesn't use the classroom as a forum to propagate his views, Dabashi is not worried about students' reporting him. Over the course of his 25-year teach- ing career, Dabashi said he has often been the subject of student praise. W ORDS the active investigation, he said he hoped students always feel free to Continued from Page 1 - report inappropriate comments or uphold the values embedded in those conduct made by University concepts,' said Senior Vice Provost for employees. Academic and Multicultural Affairs "Residents and student resident Lester Monts. staff should never hesitate to bring "If these comments are true, this forward concerns about inappropri- should be a concern for everyone in ate or insensitive comments or con- the campus community," Monts said. duct by a member of the University "No one on campus has an excuse for Housing community - whether stu- being insensitive to someone else." dent or employee - to an appropri- Griffin said he contacted Universi- ate staff member, advisor, or ty President Mary Sue Coleman and Department of Public Safety officer," members of the Board of Regents, as Zeller said. well as the UIR and WISE programs, "It is critically important for stu- and that everyone he contacted was dents to speak up when they feel they shocked and agreed that the remarks are being placed in a hostile situation are "not welcome'in the University or environment without at the same community." time having to be concerned that Despite the support other adminis- there will be negative repercussions trators have shown him, Griffin said for coming forward," he added. he still feels uncomfortable at the Zeller also stated that diversity is an idea of talkg to Sharp. integral part of both programs and that "I would think that she would be both programs actively recruit diverse more sensitive to how hurtful and students and emphasize the importance dehumanizing statements of that of multicultural perspectives. nature can be," Griffin said. "I would "As a community, we need to continu- think Dr. Sharp would have knowl- ally conduct a self-examination as to edge of how uncomfortable and hurt- whether we are doing enough to ensure ing such questions are. They are now that all members are treated with the feelings I know first-hand." appropriate respect and dignity that they Griffin said he chose to make the should always be able to expect, espe- comments public because he has cially in their contacts with University heard of several other similar inci- staff," Zeller said. "We hold ourselves dents occurring in Mosher Jordan accountable if we fall short of achieving Residence Hall, but said many of the such values." students who are victimized by hurt- Monts emphasized the need to ful remarks choose not to talk about make events like this into an educa- them for fear of retribution. tional experience. "I would like this to start a dialogue "We should also be willing to and to show people that it is not OK to allow space for people to learn make these comments, as well as to about each other. We are not born make people more open. You still see a with the cultural competencies divide between racial lines, and I feel needed to be good citizens in a that if you were to discuss more, they diverse society. Cultural competen- wouldn't exist,"he said. cies are learned behaviors that we Like himself, many of Griffin's acquired over time. So, as we make friends are residential advisors in the mistakes dealing with one another, residence hall or have research posi- let's allow the space to readjust and tions through the Undergraduate learn how to deal with these issues Research Opportunity Program. so that they don't reach crisis pro- "I'm worried about my position portions." but I hope that I'm living up to the Though Griffin's inciden.t things I was taught in training. You're involved only people inside the taught that comments like this are Mosher Jordan living-learning com- not okay and you are taught to speak munities, Griffin and other minority out against them, so I hope by speak- students said that the campus in ing out, I am doing what I am trained general needs to be more cautious to do," Griffin said. and aware of the effects comments The University responded to the can have on individual students and allegations with a written statement not be so accepting of racially-sen- given to the Daily by Housing Direc- sitive remarks. tor Bill Zeller. "I think it's very crucial that we Though Zeller could not discuss as people, and ,we as individuals, the michigan daily M "If these comments are true, this should be a concern for everyone in the campus community." - Lester Monts Senior Vice Provost for Academic and Multicultural Affairs watch what we are saying, what connotations we are making. I think a lot of us speak without really knowing the full connotations of what we are saying," LSA sopho- more Areej El-Jawahri said. "We have to be sensitive to other peo- ple's feelings because we haven't gone through what they have expe- rienced. We don't know how per- sonal it is for them. "This is no joke. Racial slurs are not something to be laughed at. The goal of our campus should be to take this out of our system because we really don't need it. We are all capable of communicating in a way that would show respect to other individuals." While El-Jawahri said most of the time she has spent at the University has been positive and filled with good memories, she can relate to Griffin. But in her case, it wasn't a Uni- versity faculty or staff member con- tributing to her feelings of discomfort. On Sept. 11 of last year, El-Jawahri, who is Arab-American, said she received a death threat via e-mail. "That moment was really a turning point in my life. I felt alone, I felt insecure, I felt that whatever I con- tributed to my community didn't really matter, and that is the worst feeling anybody can ever have, espe- cially at that point in time," she said. "(Arab-Americans) felt unwelcome in our own country." But she said that despite her expe-. rience, many of those around her supported her and gave her hope that other people's attitudes would change. "In the mix of this anger, you could also see a lot of hope because there were a lot of other Americans who stood up and said, this is wrong," El-Jawahri said. HADDAD Continued from Page 1 parts of Haddad's hearing if correct procedure was followed. "In doing so, they had to provide facts to the judge and the judge had to make a factual record of why it was being closed," Moss said. "Instead, the new judge just took the government's word." Moss added that the main reason Edmunds ordered a new hearing for Haddad was because a previous judge had been too biased toward his case. A new judge was asked to take a neutral viewpoint. "We are just asking the judge to fol- low proper procedure," Moss said. "You can't just trust what the govern- ment says." Mary Bejian, chair of the Washte- naw County ACLU, said like most Haddad supporters, she was first sur- prised rather than angry Tuesday after- noon when Newberry suddenly ordered the hearing closed. Bejian was waiting at the courthouse during the hearing. "I was very confused because my understanding was the government had not followed the protocol set up for them to request and get approval for closing a hearing," Bejian said, adding that none of Haddad's supporters raised a fuss in the courtroom. "Everybody followed the appropriate protocol," she said. She also said the ACLU simply wants the immigration hearings to be open and fair. "What the ACLU objects to is the blanket closure of all immigration hear- ings. These cases should continue to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis." 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