More rot at the University of Chicago
The stupid controversy over the Milton Friedman Institute continues at the University of Chicago. Craig Pirrong, a Chicago business school graduate and finance professor at the University of Houston, offers another blast at these embarrassments. I noted previously that some of the professors at the university who signed the letter protesting also signed the letter misrepresenting Bill Ayers terrorist past. You remember the one with this:
The current characterizations of Professor Ayers—”unrepentant terrorist,” “lunatic leftist”—are unrecognizable to those who know or work with him. It’s true that Professor Ayers participated passionately in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, as did hundreds of thousands of Americans.
There are now 17 Chicago professors who have signed on to the coverup of Ayers’s terrorism. It is time for naming and shaming.
Yali Amit, Professor, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science
Bill Brown, Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of English and Visual Arts; Committee on the History of Culture
Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science
Jean Comaroff, Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences
Michael C. Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College
Norma Field, Robert S. Ingersoll Professor of Japanese Studies
McGuire Gibson, Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology, NELC, Oriental Institute
Susan Gzesh, Lecturer in Law, Director, University of Chicago Human Rights Program
Elizabeth Helsinger, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of English and Art History
Françoise Meltzer, Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, and Divinity
W.J.T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of English and Art History
Mel Rothenberg, Professor Emeritus, Dept of Math
Bart Schultz, Director of the Civic Knowledge Project and Senior Lecturer in the Humanities
William Sewell, The Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and History Emeritus
Amy Dru Stanley, Associate Professor of History
Lisa Wedeen, Professor of Political Science
Rebecca Zorach, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
I count four members of the political science department, home of Jew obsessive John Mearsheimer. Perhaps he was too busy hunting for hidden Jews to sign.