The Bollinger Committee
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The most charitable way to view the decision of Columbia University’s president, Lee Bollinger, to appoint yet another committee to look into free-speech issues and anti-Semitism on campus is that it is a last chance for the faculty to take care of its own scandal. The committee will comprise five professors and be advised by a leading First Amendment lawyer, Floyd Abrams. Its assignment is to listen to students, do an investigation of complaints against certain individuals, and give a report to Mr. Bollinger.
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