The recent uproar over a class e-mail by Professor William I. Robinson of the University of California Santa Barbara, which drew an analogy between the Holocaust and the Israeli blockade and recent war in Gaza, “Israel’s Warsaw… (and) a slow-motion process of genocide,” is not a new one among a long list of “˜martyred’ Jewish academics. Professor Robinson, who is Jewish, used juxtaposed images of children behind barbed wire in Gaza and Poland to illustrate his argument for the analogy and drew the knee-jerk denunciation of being anti-Semitic by hawkish observers.
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Letters to the Editor
Carla Gharibian’s column on sex and abstinence (“Get the info before having sex,” May 19) raised a few issues for me. I am a virgin who will be getting married this summer after graduation, and I am very much looking forward to sharing wild and passionate, albeit awkward honeymoon sex with my husband, who will also be a virgin.
Men’s golf competes in NCAA championships
“Unleashed” Designers on Their Designs
Aimee Sorek, third-year art student: “My designs are different takes on the same dress. I design dresses for that girl who doesn’t need a guy to make her feel beautiful ““ she can just throw on a dress and go party and dance.”
Engineers craft gas-sipping vehicle
Room 2033 of the Engineering I building contains an intricate arrangement of tools, scrap metal and bike parts, as well as skeletons of several vehicles.
Students Protest Prop 8 Decision
California Supreme Court rules to uphold Proposition 8
The California Supreme Court ruled to uphold Proposition 8, an amendment to the state constitution that bans same sex marriages and defines marriage to be between a man and a woman, at 10 a.m. this morning.