Forwarded message:
To: Shy David
From: tallpaul@nyct.net
Date: 12 Jan 97 05:48:08 -0800
Subject: Anti-fascist professor fired over Holocaust material


I am writing to you as one anti-fascist to another concerning the case of
Prof. Sheldon Epstein from Northwestern University, who was just fired for
putting material *against* the Holocaust in his ethics and engineering
course at the university. I believe our paths crossed earlier on the net
over anti-hate or anti-fascist activities.

Northwestern is home to the notorious Holocaust-Revisionist Arthur Butz,
another member of the Engineering Department. Protests against Butz at NWU
have been ineffective. The NWU administration supported his "academic
freedom" to place Holocaust-Revisionist material on the university's
computer as long as it was not done in his Engineering classes.

So Prof. Epstein located a course outline for Engineering where ethical
issues in modern science were to be taught. He developed a curriculum that
examined scientific ethics and how the scientific community was involved in
events during WW II.

For this, I understand, he was fired by the same university that tolerated
and defended Butz's Holocaust-Revisionism.

The full story is available at the WWW site: http://www.k9ape.com/c96/ in
the four files candor01.html through candor04.html.

I strongly urge you to read this information. I think we must not just
challenge the spread of action-based hate ideology; we must also defend the
right of others to challenge it.

My reading of the web material is that if Prof. Epstein can be fired, so
can other professors who use material opposed to hate-action around areas
like anti-Asian violence, the bombing of black churches in the U.S. south,
or gay bashing. [id]



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