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Kirstein Op-Ed in the News-Gazette on Salaita Panel at University of Illinois...
This is the link to the op-ed I published on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure report on the Steven Salaita academic freedom travesty. In another...
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U.N. Security Council Vote on the Palestinian State and the Samantha Power...
The treatment of the Palestinians is one of the great crimes in modern history. A people dispossessed by zionism and reduced to penury and colonialism. The right of Israel to exist is not open to...
View ArticleAAUP Sends Third Salaita Letter to Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise
This is the third letter that the American Association of University Professors has sent to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Wise that emanated from the Salaita hiring, summary...
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Kirstein Mentioned in Jim Dey Salaita Column in News-Gazette
I had published an op-ed critical of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure report that investigated the Steven Salaita firing from the UIUC. Their...
View ArticleKirstein Cited in Mondoweiss on University of Illinois Faculty Panel Report
Article is exhaustive analysis of reaction to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure report “On the Matter of Steven Salaita.” I am mentioned as a...
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Decorated Air Force Academy Graduate Comments on My Battle for Academic Freedom
Dr Thomas Eller, awarded twice the Distinguished Flying Cross and a former professor and assistant dean at the Air Force Academy, was honoured with the 2014 Distinguished Graduates Award at the US Air...
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University of Ill. Censure: Kirstein Quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Ed.
AAUP Censures U. of Illinois and 3 Other Colleges, Vows to Fight On in Wisconsin By Peter Schmidt Washington The American Association of University Professors voted overwhelmingly at its annual...
View ArticleKirstein Quoted in Inside Higher Ed on Salaita Vote of Censure
Inside Higher Ed broke the Steven Salaita tenure-firing on August 6, 2014. The reporter Colleen Flaherty wrote an exhaustive article on the annual meeting of the AAUP. She quotes me on stating...
View ArticleOp-ed on Steven Salaita Tenure Travesty at U of Illinois
The News-Gazette of Champaign, Illinois published today in its Sunday paper an op-ed I wrote on the meaning of the American Association of University Professors’ censure of the University of Illinois...
View ArticleLos Alamos Daily Post Publishes Kirstein Commentary on A-bomb at 70
The Los Alamos Daily Post published an op-ed on the 70th anniversary of the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Los Alamos was where the Little Boy and Fat Man uranium and plutonium...
View ArticleKirstein op-ed in Chicago Tribune’s Daily Southtown
This is a link to the op-ed with accompanying image. Was using the atomic bomb necessary to end WW II? – Daily Southtown Seventy years ago on Aug. 6, 1945, World War II became a nuclear war when an...
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In Memoriam: Paul L. DeVito
Dr Paul L. DeVito died suddenly and unexpectedly over the weekend of August 22-23, 2015. He had been provost at Saint Xavier University for two years. During his tenure, many witnessed a recrudescence...
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Running with Muhammad Ali
I used to live in the Hyde Park area of Chicago, which is right on Lake Michigan. One early chilly, windy Sunday morning I was running south along Lake Shore Drive. LSD was to my right and I noticed...
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