This post is about more local, smaller politics, which I will attempt to connect to the media, sorry if it seems like a bit of a stretch...
This week, CUNY's board of trustees decided to rescind the honorary award that they had been planning to give to Tony Kushner.
The reason? Well, apparently Jeffery Wiesenfeld, a trustee, convinced the rest of the board that Kushner was anti-Israel, and therefore his work deserved to not be honored.
I read somewhere yesterday (and now I can't find the article so maybe I'm making this up...) that Wiesenfeld was basing his decision on something that Kushner wrote online.
It will be interesting to see what happens now that the news is all over this- there are numerous facebook pages, editorials, articles crying out against this- and calling for Wiesenfeld's resignation.
YU's very own Professor Schrecker who was also honored with the same award a couple of years ago on her work on academic honesty, is mentioned in this article (she's returning her award in solidarity).
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