The NYT reports on MEALAC at Columbia

My colleague and fellow ECFAS member Andy Nathan has the best quotation in today's NYT piece about mideast controversies at Columbia: "'I've been teaching 33 years and I've always thought we all knew what was appropriate faculty deportment,' said Andrew J. Nathan, a political science professor who is dubious about the students' charges. 'Now it is not clear to everyone that the classroom is where the faculty is in full control. I teach a course called Introduction to Human Rights. We had a whole week on the torture memos of the Bush administration. Now I'm starting to wonder whether there's somebody in my class of 143 students who might grieve against me, that I indoctrinated them, that they went through emotional suffering to hear about these things.' "