FC: UCLAer suspended for writing email criticizing Israel

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Mon Oct 08 2001 - 22:12:55 PDT

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    Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 09:03:34 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Dan Tsang <dtsangat_private>
    To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private>
    Subject: UCLA e-mail poster loses one-week's pay
    
    FYI.. the show mentioned below is now archived at:
    
    http://falco.kuci.uci.edu/~dtsang/subversity/realaudio.htm
    
    Click on Latest Archived Show.
    
    Feel free to circ.  Dan Tsang
    .......................................
    
    9/11 Backlash in Academia
    
    Irvine -- With tensions and patriotic fervor rising in the wake of 9/11,
    academia has not been immune.  Four academics died in the attacks, but
    casualties on campus continue.  Muslim student groups have come under
    scrutiny as Congress considers enacting foreign student bans.  At
    University of South Florida, a Palestinian computer science professor,
    Sami Al-Arian, after being threatened, has been suspended with pay and
    asked to stay off-campus.  And at UCLA's Young Research Library, a library
    assistant has been suspended after he e-mailed colleagues a
    pro-Palestinian message.
    
    On Subversity Friday May 5, 2001 from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange
    County, Calif. (Web-cast via http://kuci.org), we chat with Jonnie Hargis,
    a library assistant and geographical information system specialist at
    UCLA's research library.
    
    Hargis was suspended without pay from September 17-21 after library
    administrators decided his e-mail violated library policy (made public
    after he was suspended).  The Daily Bruin today editorially called for
    library adminstrators to apologize and give him his back pay.  Hargis is
    represented by CUE, the clerical workers' union in the UC system.
    
    To chat with Hargis, call 949 824-5824 during the show.
    
    Resources:
    
    Freedom of speech under attack
    http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/articles.asp?ID=16568
    
    YRL employee punished for political mass e-mail
    http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/articles.asp?ID=16567
    
    graphic showing Hargis reprimand letter
    http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/rcissues/01/10.04/images/nw.employee.gfx.gif
    
    Professor, Once the Subject of Terrorist Investigation, Is Placed on Leave
    After He Receives Threats
    http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001100102n.htm
    
    Thanx for listening!
    
    dan
    Daniel C. Tsang
    Host, Subversity, Fridays, 5-6 p.m.
    KUCI, 88.9 FM and Web-cast live via http://kuci.org
    Subversity: http://go.fast.to/sv; E-mail: subversityat_private
    Daniel Tsang, KUCI, PO Box 4362, Irvine CA 92616
    UCI Tel: (949) 824-4978; UCI Fax: (949) 824-2700
    UCI Office: 380 Main Library
    Member, National Writers Union (http://www.nwu.org)
    AWARE: http://go.fast.to/aware
    WWW News Resource Page: http://go.fast.to/news
    Personal home page: http://go.fast.to/ar
      
    
    
    
    
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