I promise you, if he comes to Champaign-Urbana, we will put him under 24 hour guard until the threats to him subside. :)
Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:35 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, this is great! Good riddance to her. > > Sadly Salaita's reinstatement still seems highly unlikely, and perhaps > even undesirable considering hostility and resentment he is likely to face > there. But this may clear the way for some kind of resolution. > -raghu. > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Phyllis Wise said >> Thursday that she is resigning, citing a range of 'external issues' >> she says have become a distraction for the school. >> >> "Wise leaves as she and the school face a lawsuit filed by a professor >> whose job offer she rescinded over his anti-Israel Twitter messages, a >> vote by a prominent academic group to censure the campus in response, >> and complaints and a pair of lawsuits alleging mistreatment of >> athletes in three sports. Her resignation is effective Aug. 12." >> >> >> http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ad89fcdf27dc4e83a8e76d0d1e8b0427/university-illinois-chancellor-wise-resigning-aug-12 >> >> Coming a few hours after this, the timing of her announcement seems clear: >> >> "The University of Illinois cannot disavow having contractual >> obligations to Steven G. Salaita, the controversial scholar whose job >> offer it rescinded last summer before he could begin teaching on the >> Urbana-Champaign campus, a federal court ruled on Thursday." >> >> >> http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/court-holds-that-u-of-illinois-broke-contract-in-salaita-case/102881 >> >> Academic types, am I correct in thinking that six days' notice is awfully >> short? >> >> -- >> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure >> mægen lytlað." >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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