Category: timeline
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“Refusal to crack down on antisemitism made CUNY school a ‘hostile’ workplace: Jewish studies director”
Again, cultural studies are seen as a battleground for broader contemporary issues. The article is aggressive and unbalanced. It describes protests at college as being fundamentally anti-Semitic, and shows video footage of a situation getting violent. This is juxtaposed with a calm, professional photograph of the professor making the accusations. Read more.
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“The Organizers Are Jewish. The Cause Is Palestinian. This College Won’t Be Hosting.”
This is the first report that I have found on an arts event at CUNY being cancelled – potentially for political reasons. Read more.
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“City College, Against Its Nature, Asks Police to End Campus Protest”
This piece reviews the history of protest at CCNY in light of the college’s response to anti-genocide protests on campus. While the connection to the humanities is less direct than in the 1960s, the people commenting are from humanities fields such as English and political science. This is a general pattern in the Times reporting…
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“Shellyne Rodriguez, Unhinged NYC college professor who cursed out anti-abortion students, holds machete to Post reporter’s neck”
Former Hunter College art professor Shellyne Rodriguez was the subject of near-constant Post reporting after an incident where she confronted anti-abortion students for spreading medical misinformation in a college common area. The scandal escalated when she confronted a reporter from the publication with a machete after they showed up at her residence. Beyond being verbally…
