Rummy appointment sparks fierce protests from Stamford faculty, students

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Rumsfeld as Fellow Draws a Protest at Stanford
Jim Wilson/The New York Times

By JONATHAN D. GLATER
Published: September 21, 2007

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 19 — The appointment of Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary, as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution is drawing fierce protests from faculty members and students at Stanford University and is threatening to rekindle tensions between the institution, a conservative research body, and the more liberal campus.

Some 2,100 professors, staff members, students and alumni have signed an online petition protesting Mr. Rumsfeld’s appointment, which will involve advising a task force on ideology and terrorism. Faculty members say he should not have been offered the post because of his role in the Bush administration’s prosecution of the Iraq war.

“We view the appointment as fundamentally incompatible with the ethical values of truthfulness, tolerance, disinterested enquiry, respect for national and international laws and care for the opinions, property and lives of others to which Stanford is inalienably committed,” the petition reads.

Philip G. Zimbardo, emeritus professor of psychology, explained his objection to Mr. Rumsfeld’s appointment as he rushed across campus to teach a class. “It is unacceptable to have someone who represents the values that Rumsfeld has portrayed, in an academic setting,” Dr. Zimbardo said.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/education/21stanford.html?ref=washington

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1. That is equivalent to being named a distinguished Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan

Hoover is the west coast Heritage, nothing but right wing morons sitting around a table trying to figure out how to undo the Constitution. rumsfeld will fit right in but I urge the Stanford smart people to continue their opposition.

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2. I wonder why they are upset?