Mideast Tensions at Columbia University

There's an interesting piece in the New York Times talking about politics getting very personal:

"Every Monday and Friday until its work is done, a novel faculty panel will make itself available to hear narratives from students and faculty members in the hope of sorting out a virulent dispute that has rattled the university for months. If anything is clear in this very unclear quarrel, ostensibly over supposed intimidation of Jewish students by pro-Palestinian professors in the Middle East and Asian languages and cultures department, it is that it has already produced some unbecoming fallout."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/18/education/18columbia.html

-Jean Chen