{"id":2463,"date":"2007-10-04T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T20:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2007-10-04T15:08:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T20:08:38","slug":"banning-desmond-tutu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2463","title":{"rendered":"Banning Desmond Tutu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Put off by his controversial words on Israel, the University of St. Thomas snubs a Nobel Laureate<\/font><\/p>\n

By Matt Snyders<\/a>, City Pages, 3 October 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n
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Photo by Benny Gool<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Back in April, when University of St. Thomas staffer Mike Klein informed his colleagues in the Justice and Peace Studies program that he’d succeeded in booking Archbishop Desmond Tutu for a campus appearance, the faculty buzzed in anticipation. For a program dedicated to fostering social change and nonviolence, there were few figures who embodied that vision more aptly than the world-renowned civil rights activist and Nobel Laureate.<\/p>\n

Tutu’s appearance\u2014slated for the spring of ’08\u2014was made possible by the university’s partnership with PeaceJam International, a youth-centered project that taps Nobel Laureates to teach young adults about peace and justice. For four straight years, the Catholic university’s St. Paul campus had played host to PeaceJam festivities featuring Nobel Peace Prize winners such as Rigoberta Mench\u00fa Tum and Shirin Ebadi.<\/p>\n

But in a move that still has faculty members shaking their heads in disbelief, St. Thomas administrators\u2014concerned that Tutu’s appearance might offend local Jews\u2014told organizers that a visit from the archbishop was out of the question.<\/p>\n

[Read the report<\/a> | hat tip<\/a>] <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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