Legislatures May Act on Columbia |
Silver Warns of Impact on State Aid |
By JACOB GERSHMAN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
September 24, 2007
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John Smock / AP |
Council Member David Weprin, left, Council Member James Gennaro, and Rabbi Zev Friedman speak to a group of demonstrators outside Columbia University yesterday in protest of Columbia's plans for President Ahmadinejad of Iran to speak on campus. |
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As the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, prepares to address Columbia University today amid a storm of student protest, state and city lawmakers say they are considering withholding public funds from the school to protest its decision to invite the leader to campus.
In an interview with The New York Sun, the speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, said lawmakers, outraged over Columbia's insistence on allowing the Iranian president to speak at its World Leaders Forum, would consider reducing capital aid and other financial assistance to the school.
Lawmakers warned about other consequences for Columbia and its president, Lee Bollinger, who has resisted campus and public pressure to cancel Mr. Ahmadinejad's appearance today, arguing that Columbia's commitment to scholarship requires the school to directly confront offensive ideas.
"There are issues that Columbia may have before us that obviously this cavalier attitude would be something that people would recall," Mr. Silver said. "Obviously, there's some degree of capital support that has been provided to Columbia in the past. These are things people might take a different view of … knowing that this is that kind of an institution."
Mr. Silver faulted Columbia for "attempting to legitimize this individual," saying, "We have an obligation because of the U.N. to allow him to come to this country. It doesn't mean we have to make him welcome. We don't have to give him a forum."
The speaker said he was infuriated by comments made on Saturday by the acting dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, John Coatsworth, who said in a television interview that it would have been proper for Columbia to extend a speaking invitation to Hitler in 1939. Mr. Coatsworth's school is sponsoring the event.
"What makes it more outrageous is the fact that some dean yesterday said he would have invited Adolf Hitler. It's totally outrageous. This is not a matter of academic freedom. This is a matter of legitimizing people, one who was the perpetrator of the Holocaust and one who denies its existence," Mr. Silver said.
"He's clearly responsible for the deaths of Americans both in Iraq and elsewhere. And he remains as much a threat to the world as anybody today. I don't understand what this dean and Columbia are thinking," Mr. Silver said.
Mr. Silver's criticism of Columbia was echoed by other elected officials, who argued that Columbia was lending its name and prestige to a leader of a terrorist-sponsoring dictatorship who denies the existence of the Holocaust, vows to eliminate Israel, preaches Islamic extremism, and aspires to build nuclear weapons.
"Bollinger made a big mistake, and there should be consequences for him for making that decision," the chairman of the New York City Council's Finance Committee, David Weprin, said in an interview. "We should look at everything involving Columbia, whether it be capital projects, city and state, or other related things that we do in the city for them," he said.
Mr. Weprin was one of several elected officials who joined Jewish leaders, Columbia students, and alumni yesterday at a demonstration at the Morningside Heights campus to protest Mr. Ahmadinejad's talk.
"It's not going to go away just because this episode ends. Columbia University has to know … that they will be penalized," an assemblyman of Brooklyn, Dov Hikind, who also attended the rally, said. The lawmaker said Mr. Ahmadinejad should be arrested when he sets foot on campus.
Speaking at the rally, a New York City Council member, James Gennaro, urged university donors to withhold their dollars from the institution, while Rep. Anthony Weiner, a potential mayoral candidate in 2009, said Columbia's reputation was taking a "brutal beating."
Mr. Silver's warning of sanctions against Columbia is a highly unusual departure for a state leader who has seldom, if ever, threatened to use the power of the state purse to punish a private university.
A spokesman for the Senate Republicans, John McArdle, said the majority conference is "going to review the whole situation and decide on how, or whether, to proceed."
Mayor Bloomberg, who visited the Flight 93 memorial site in Shanksville, Pa., yesterday told reporters he disagreed with Columbia's decision to host Mr. Ahmadinejad but promised the city would "provide the protection to make sure that when he gets there, he speaks safely without any threats and leaves."
Albany awards Columbia millions of dollars a year in student financial aid and also provides funding for smaller-scale capital projects. Last year, Albany awarded the school $10 million for nanotechnology center and $12 million for a cancer center in Washington Heights.
Columbia uses the state Dormitory Authority to borrow money at low interest rates. Mr. Silver could use his influence over the authority to weed out Columbia bonding projects before they are submitted for approval.
The school is also seeking approval from city lawmakers for its plan to expand into a 17-acre swath of land in West Harlem. Albany also has the power to use eminent domain to facilitate Columbia's expansion.
Mr. Bollinger has defended his university's invitation to Mr. Ahmadinejad, saying that in order to fulfill Columbia's mission, he must respect the rights of faculty and deans to "create programming for academic purposes." On occasion, he said, "this will bring us into contact with beliefs many, most, or even all of us will find offensive and even odious."
A year ago, Mr. Bollinger rescinded Columbia's invitation to Mr. Ahmadinejad to speak at the same annual forum, apparently overruling a former dean of SIPA, Lisa Anderson. Mr. Bollinger, at the time, said he couldn't be certain that the Iranian leader's presence at the school would "reflect the academic values that are the hallmark of a university event such as our World Leaders Forum." An assistant to Ms. Anderson said the event was cancelled because of security and logistical concerns.
Inside the university, Mr. Bollinger yesterday faced criticism from several student leaders, some of whom supported the invitation to Mr. Ahmadinejad but said they were angry that they were not consulted by the administration.
"I've heard a lot of feedback already from people saying they don't want to give money," Elizabeth Goldhirsch, who graduated from Columbia's school of journalism in 2002, said. "I will not make a donation if this stance is maintained."
Mr. Bollinger, who has served as president since 2002, also was confronting signs of increasing division in his administration.
The dean of Columbia Law School, David Schizer, in a statement called Mr. Ahmadinejad "a reprehensible and dangerous figure," and said it would be "deeply regrettable if some misread this invitation as lending prestige or legitimacy to his views."
Mr. Ahmadinejad, who is attending the U.N. General Assembly, arrived in New York late yesterday. He is scheduled to speak at Columbia for an hour, beginning at 1:30 p.m., and will issue his remarks in Farsi with simultaneous translation, a university spokesman said.
Columbia officials say the Iranian leader will be escorted onto campus through the gate at 114th Street, which leads directly to Lerner Hall. He is scheduled to depart immediately after the event. Campus security, which is coordinating with local and federal authorities, is planning for more than 10,000 protesters to congregate outside the university's gates.
Columbia distributed 600 tickets to the talk, where Mr. Ahmadinejad will field questions from Mr. Bollinger as well as faculty and students. The event is to be broadcast on televisions and lounges across campus.
Mr. Bollinger said in a statement that he would question the Iranian president on human rights issues, as well as his position that Israel should be "wiped off the map" and that the Holocaust did not occur.
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Sep 24, 2007 11:21 |
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Sep 24, 2007 11:20 |
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Sep 24, 2007 11:16 |
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Sep 24, 2007 11:10 |
Columbia denies ROTC free speech on its campus [62 words] |
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Sep 24, 2007 13:17 |
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Sep 24, 2007 11:54 |
Equal Treatment [25 words] |
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Sep 24, 2007 10:53 |
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Sep 24, 2007 10:09 |
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Sep 24, 2007 12:11 |
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Sep 24, 2007 10:09 |
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Sep 24, 2007 10:03 |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:59 |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:56 |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:42 |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:39 |
Are we Iran all of a sudden [48 words] |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:38 |
Resign Bollinger and Dean [37 words] |
A |
Sep 24, 2007 09:37 |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:36 |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:25 |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:25 |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:23 |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:21 |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:19 |
US Constitution [126 words] |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:15 |
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Columbia development plans in NYC [47 words] |
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Foreign Citizens aren't entitled to our rights [63 words] |
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FREE SPEECH!!!! [64 words] |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:09 |
Freedom of Speech? [15 words] |
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Sep 24, 2007 09:07 |
Columbia has every right to invite him, but: [35 words] |
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Ivory Towers [37 words] |
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Sep 24, 2007 08:50 |
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Sep 24, 2007 08:46 |
Columbia U - Minute Men Not Welcome but Ahmadinejad Will Be [33 words] |
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Sep 24, 2007 08:19 |
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Choice [46 words] |
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Sep 24, 2007 08:17 |
Reason to support it [31 words] |
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Sep 24, 2007 08:16 |
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Sep 24, 2007 08:16 |
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Sep 24, 2007 08:03 |
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Sep 24, 2007 08:00 |
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Sep 24, 2007 07:55 |
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Sep 24, 2007 07:34 |
Thomas Paine [41 words] |
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Sep 24, 2007 07:33 |
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Sep 24, 2007 07:33 |
RE: Freedom [26 words] |
Marilyn Chapman |
Sep 24, 2007 07:06 |
Freedom? [32 words] |
Robert |
Sep 24, 2007 06:58 |
↔ Not a Free Speech issue [53 words] |
Tom McGrath |
Sep 24, 2007 07:17 |
↔ Stop with the freedom stuff already [19 words] |
S |
Sep 24, 2007 07:23 |
↔ Send the dean to Iran [82 words] |
Darrell |
Sep 24, 2007 07:46 |
↔ Spieakers Platform [101 words] |
R.P. Foster |
Sep 24, 2007 08:03 |
↔ Didn't know our rights... [73 words] |
James Miller |
Sep 24, 2007 08:07 |
↔ give me a break [190 words] |
peter drang |
Sep 24, 2007 08:11 |
↔ The priviledges of being an American does not apply to Iranian President. [84 words] |
JB |
Sep 24, 2007 08:54 |
↔ It IS about free speech [242 words] |
Steve |
Sep 24, 2007 08:59 |
↔ Freedom of Speech? [22 words] |
Ric |
Sep 24, 2007 09:11 |
↔ It's a private school Robert, take a constitutional law class! [18 words] |
Captain D |
Sep 24, 2007 09:15 |
↔ Free speech is in the US Constitution - not the Iranian constitution [131 words] |
Michael |
Sep 24, 2007 09:24 |
↔ Free Freedom? [38 words] |
porcine delight |
Sep 24, 2007 09:39 |
↔ Free Speech [31 words] |
Danny H |
Sep 24, 2007 09:39 |
↔ Not about Ahmadinejad's free speech, but Columbia's [77 words] |
MN |
Sep 24, 2007 09:43 |
↔ Another perspective [119 words] |
Delaplane |
Sep 24, 2007 09:44 |
↔ Let Him Speak [70 words] |
Oliver Tighe |
Sep 24, 2007 10:08 |
↔ Let him speak and show him this is USA, not Iran [70 words] |
BubbleBoy |
Sep 24, 2007 10:33 |
↔ Two Things... [97 words] |
Dan |
Sep 24, 2007 10:45 |
↔ Let Him Speak [73 words] |
Sally |
Sep 24, 2007 15:19 |
on Campus [87 words] |
Fred |
Sep 24, 2007 06:51 |
↔ Financial help for needy students threatened. [16 words] |
Bob |
Sep 24, 2007 08:17 |
↔ What are you afraid of? [187 words] |
Bob Jones |
Sep 24, 2007 09:04 |
↔ Tehran University Extends invitation to President Bush to Speak ! [4 words] |
Bennett |
Sep 24, 2007 09:41 |
↔ America : Land of the Sheep and Bullies [56 words] |
a free thinking Amrican |
Sep 24, 2007 10:25 |
↔ free thinking? [62 words] |
Dave |
Sep 24, 2007 13:06 |
↔ propaganda [81 words] |
karin |
Sep 24, 2007 14:59 |
↔ Have you met your President [4 words] |
a free thinking American |
Sep 28, 2007 09:13 |
It's about time... [13 words] |
ricardo maxwell |
Sep 24, 2007 06:38 |
Mr Silver's comments on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [20 words] |
J. Kobylka |
Sep 24, 2007 06:23 |
↔ No Freedom [31 words] |
Clay |
Sep 24, 2007 07:15 |
↔ The state needs to [60 words] |
Bernard |
Sep 24, 2007 07:42 |
↔ Columbia moral standard- Highly Selective like her admissions [69 words] |
Butchsnot Prebbie |
Sep 24, 2007 08:07 |
↔ Praisinng Silver [12 words] |
Robert Lo Dolce |
Sep 24, 2007 08:17 |
↔ let him rant [47 words] |
Richard |
Sep 24, 2007 08:38 |
↔ Columbia from mountain to hill [84 words] |
anonyous |
Sep 24, 2007 08:37 |
↔ Minute men [32 words] |
Roger Krell |
Sep 24, 2007 09:11 |
↔ Free Speach?? [22 words] |
George |
Sep 24, 2007 09:13 |
↔ His ideas must be powerful since so many are afraid... [84 words] |
rc |
Sep 24, 2007 09:19 |
↔ our education system is broken down [121 words] |
dmk2000 |
Sep 24, 2007 11:53 |
↔ Silver is a clown [143 words] |
John |
Sep 24, 2007 13:12 |
I Agree with Columbia University [49 words] |
Maria |
Sep 24, 2007 06:17 |
Just how open are you? [89 words] |
Kyrux |
Sep 24, 2007 05:48 |
New generation of history students of Columbia no match for Ahmendinejad [184 words] |
Mary A. Jackson |
Sep 24, 2007 05:47 |
Hail, Columbia [261 words] |
Jon |
Sep 24, 2007 05:35 |
Shame on Columbia [102 words] |
Jon Dame |
Sep 24, 2007 05:17 |
Silver Way Out of Line [100 words] |
Dan |
Sep 24, 2007 04:51 |
American Hypocracy [220 words] |
Scott |
Sep 24, 2007 04:43 |
Denying Ahmadinejad a forum will not make the problem go away [276 words] |
Bob Reynolds |
Sep 24, 2007 04:36 |
Ironic [224 words] |
Said |
Sep 24, 2007 04:36 |
This amounts to extortion!!! [38 words] |
lars nilsson |
Sep 24, 2007 04:32 |
Visit [63 words] |
Wes |
Sep 24, 2007 04:31 |
You lose can't you see [29 words] |
Shadowfax |
Sep 24, 2007 03:41 |
All Publicity is Good [41 words] |
Steve |
Sep 24, 2007 03:34 |
He has all the right to be there [82 words] |
Lara |
Sep 24, 2007 03:24 |
Legislatures May Act on Columbia [60 words] |
Crom |
Sep 24, 2007 03:24 |
No to Ahmadinejad! [27 words] |
Alex |
Sep 24, 2007 03:20 |
Bollinger is lying [58 words] |
Kurtiss |
Sep 24, 2007 03:18 |
Ahmedinejads Visit to Columbia [241 words] |
M Junaid Khan |
Sep 24, 2007 03:16 |
Terrorists everywhere [126 words] |
E Rodgers |
Sep 24, 2007 03:12 |
Columbia and the military [192 words] |
Bosun |
Sep 24, 2007 02:44 |
omg~ [167 words] |
Justin |
Sep 24, 2007 02:39 |
What's the Harm ? [76 words] |
Rick Barrett |
Sep 24, 2007 02:31 |
How brave is Columbia's administration? [59 words] |
AmericanMark |
Sep 24, 2007 02:03 |
Throw the bum out [94 words] |
Leopold Lacrimosa |
Sep 24, 2007 01:56 |
Free Speech [144 words] |
Dave Berthiaume |
Sep 24, 2007 01:39 |
What are they afraid of? [16 words] |
Marty |
Sep 24, 2007 01:33 |
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