The annual Yeshiva University book project, run mostly by staff from the English department, is currently looking for a speaker to address the University. The book chosen for the year was Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, a discussion of American involvement in Vietnam. Among the questions is tackles is Imperialism.
According to the head of the project, Professor Elizabeth Stewart, currently under consideration are MIT Professor, Noam Chomsky, and New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh. Stewart said Hersh is the favored speaker, as many professors at the last board meeting felt concerned that bringing Chomsky to Yeshiva University would inspire mass protest. Chomsky has a reputation on campus as being anti-Israel. Stewart did remark, however, that Chomsky has already expressed interest in speaking at Yeshiva University in the past.