NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Jewish civil rights group Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center has sent a warning letter to Columbia University President Lee Bollinger advising him that Columbia's plan to host a banquet for visiting Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad runs afoul of U.S. anti-terror laws and will subject the university and its officials to both criminal prosecution and civil liability to victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism in Israel or elsewhere. The letter explains that Iran has been designated as a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States (22 U.S.C 2656f) and that the provision of any support by U.S. persons, including the planned banquet for Ahmadinejad, is considered unlawful provision of aid to the outlawed regime. The Law Center stated that victims of...
Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer and Columbia University President Lee Bollinger recently announced that they have reached an agreement on a series of steps to benefit the West Harlem Community as it relates to Columbia's planned expansion of their Manhattanville campus. The agreement contains a series of commitments from Columbia that will directly address community needs including affordable housing, open space, sustainable development, community resources, and greater accommodation of the local Community Board's 197-a plan for the area. This is an historic day for the future of West Harlem and all of New York City," Borough President Stringer said. "Columbia's expansion will enable Northern Manhattan to remain a global center of higher education while bringing benefits ...
NEW YORK -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, facing protests and tabloid headlines calling him "evil" and a "madman," stirred debate Monday about free speech ahead of his appearance at Columbia University. Columbia President Lee Bollinger has promised to grill Ahmadinejad on subjects such as human rights, the Holocaust and Iran's disputed nuclear program. The Iranian leader previously has called the Holocaust "a myth" and called for Israel to be "wiped off the map.
Flourishing universities are the source of two of the essential elements of New York's historic uniqueness: attracting the great creative minds who come here to pursue ideas that make a difference in our society, and creating the good jobs that provide sustained economic opportunity for a wide diversity of working people," said Columbia President Lee Bollinger. "This can be an extraordinary opportunity for Columbia and our local community to work together on enhancing the many educational and health care services the University already provides, as well as supporting the local community so it can be full participants in the economic opportunities that our expansion will create. With support from the Bloomberg administration, Congressman Rangel, and many others, this commitment to our H...
Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn also tried to get in her licks. In a letter to Columbia's President Lee Bollinger on Sept. 20, she asked that [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] not be allowed to come to Columbia. "While I appreciate your efforts as a nationally recognized First Amendment scholar, the idea of Ahmadinejad is offensive to all New Yorkers," Quinn said, adding, "Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier, here for one reason - to spread his hate-mongering vitriol on the world." Quinn, according to some sources, may be running for mayor in 2009. The Iranian answered the BoUinger insults by saying, "I should not begin by being affected by this unfriendly treatment." However, he added, "in Iran, when a person is invited to speak, his audience is allowed to make their own judgments."' CaUs to loca...
We are grateful that the City Planning Commission, under the leadership of chair Amanda Burden, has given such careful consideration to how our proposal can be improved and move forward in the best interests of botb the University and the local community," said Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger. "This is not only because the commission's decision is an essential element of the public land use review process, but also because the commissioners' independent judgments about how to balance preservation of our city's unique urban fabric with the need for wisely planned growth are so widely respected. As a result of the commission's careful consideration, the University's design plan has continued to evolve and improve during this process in a number of ways. Columbia has also made a numb...
NEW YORK Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks and defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance Monday at Columbia University, whose president accused the hard-line leader of behaving like "a petty and cruel dictator. Ahmadinejad smiled at first but appeared increasingly agitated, decrying the "insults" and "unfriendly treatment." Columbia President Lee Bollinger and audience members took him to task over Iran's human-rights record and foreign policy, as well as Ahmadinejad's statements denying the Holocaust and calling for the disappearance of Israel.
The Board of Trustees of Columbia University has extended the contract of President Lee Bollinger until 2015.
At a time when Google's stand against Chi -nese censorship is front page news, when the nature of newsgathering and reporting is undergoing profound changes, when established news organizations are downsizing, restructuring and at times going out of business, you expect something big and timely from this book. Lee C. Bollinger, president of Columbia University with its celebrated journalism school, approaches the problem from a global perspective: "How will we confront this new, more reactive and more integrated world with a press weakened by a lack of stable funding and forced to navigate through a bewildering landscape in which the laws governing censorship and access to newsworthy information vary from nation to nation? This book," he tells us, "addresses that question.
After watching a television clip of that bizarre hawg wrassle in New York City earlier this week featuring the President of Columbia University versus the President of Iran, I thought, well, you can say one thing for the academic: He sure knows how to introduce an invited guest to make him feel right at home. Future masters of ceremonies will surely be hard-pressed to top Columbia president Lee Bollinger's memorable introduction of Iran's loose-cannon president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator.
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