Lee Bollinger

• Lee Bollinger's Triumph

On September 24, a front-page story in The New York Sun reported that because Lee Bollinger refused to bow to public pressure to cancel the radioactive invitation, Silver and other lawmakers "are considering withholding public funds [in the future] from [Columbia]" in protest. Added another summer soldier of the free exchange of ideas, David Weprin, chairman of New York City Council's Finance Committee: "We should," he told the Sun, "look at [our funding of] everything involving Columbia, whether it be capital projects, city and state, or other related things that we do in the city for them.

• Village Voice, The
• August 21, 2009

• Barbara Grutter, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lee Bollinger, Et Al., Defendants-Appellants (01-1447), Kimberly James, Et Al., Intervening Defendants-Appellants (01-1516)., 288 F.3d 732 (6th Cir. 2002)

David F. Herr (briefed), Kirk O. Kolbo (argued and briefed), R. Lawrence Purdy (briefed), Michael C. McCarthy (briefed), Kai H. Richter (briefed), Mas...

• Federal Circuits

• Illegality of Planned Banquet for Iranian Leader

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...

• U.S. Newswire
• September 14, 2011

• A degree of transparency: Columbia's Lee Bollinger has been central in healing tensions between the university and one of America's most historic Black neighborhoods.

When Lee C. Bollinger arrived in New York City in 2002 to take the helm of Columbia University, he was treated as a hero almost immediately by the cit...

• Diverse Issues in Higher Education
• February 22, 2007

• Barbara Grutter, for Herself and all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lee Bollinger; Jeffrey Lehman; Dennis Shields; University of Michigan, Board of Regents, Defendants-Appellants., 247 F.3d 631 (6th Cir. 2001)

Before: Martin, Chief Judge; Daughtrey and Moore, Circuit Judges. ORDER The defendants appeal the district court's opinion and order enjoining its co...

• Federal Circuits

• Columbia University President to Remain at Helm

The Board of Trustees of Columbia University has extended the contract of President Lee Bollinger until 2015.

• Culvert Chronicles, The
• February 21, 2011

• The Journal Record Non-Profit Briefs: November 2, 2011

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• The Journal Record
• November 09, 2011

• Nyc Speaks: Ahmadinejad Came, He Saw, but Did He Conquer?

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...

• New York Amsterdam News
• August 21, 2009

• Ebony Patterson, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees (01-1333), Intervening Defendants (01-1416), Intervening Defendants-Appellees (01-1418), Intervening Defendants-Appellants (01-1438) Barbara Grutter, Plaintiff-Appellee (01-1447 and 01-1516), v. Lee Bollinger. Et Al., Defendants-Appellants (01-1447), and Kimberly James, Et Al., Intervening Defendants-Appellants (01-1516)., 277 F.3d 803 (6th Cir. 2001)

Before: MARTIN, Chief Circuit Judge; BOGGS, SILER, BATCHELDER, DAUGHTREY, MOORE, COLE, CLAY, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges. Prior Report: 247 F.3d 631 O...

• Federal Circuits

• Right Question, Few Answers

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.

• The Washington Times
• January 25, 2010