As a senior about to graduate, I am deeply saddened by the responses on Wesleying to the Wespeak on faculty of color at Wesleyan.
There is a definite buzz around campus these days about the passing of the College in Prison program here at Wesleyan.
We do not disagree that there are problems regarding the hiring and existence of visiting professors at Wesleyan and in academia generally. We do, however, take issue with The Argus’s conflation of visiting professors in general with the specific case of Visiting Associate Professor in the African American Studies Program Professor Annemarie Bean (“Visiting professor turnover questioned after Bean’s dismissal,” April 11, 2008, Volume CXLIII, Number 39).
In a Wespeak I wrote in response to Alison Weir’s offensive lecture I referred to her "veiled anti-Semitism." It appears that some would disagree with me and I have been ordered to validate this statement. I actually agree that I should have expanded upon said statement, so I will do so right now.
I went to PAC last Thursday to learn something new about the Palestine-Israel conflict. Where I come from, harsh critics of Israel are few and far between, and since I am not knowledgeable on Israel human rights offenses I went to Allison Weir’s lecture.