http://campusj.com Jewish Collegiate News Sun, 20 May 2007 19:28:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Norman Finkelstein, professor of political science at DePaul University and controversial author of The Holocaust Industry as well as Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, spoke last Wednesday at the University of California-Davis. His lecture took place as part of the Muslim Students Association's ... http://campusj.com/2007/05/20/uc-davis-muslim-student-group-hosts-norman-finkelstein/ Some 53-percent of college professors and faculty hold an unfavorable opinion of Christian evangelicals, according to a study conducted by the San Francisco-based Institute for Jewish and Community Research. Their figures are derived from a national poll of 1,200 faculty at colleges and universities. Though the study was initial intended ... http://campusj.com/2007/05/20/jewish-research-institute-finds-college-bias-against-evangelicals/ As part of its sixth-annual Project Preservation, the Dartmouth University Hillel will be sending 14 students of various religious denominations to Lithuania to help restore a Jewish cemetary in the town of Yurburg. Returning trip attendee Zoe Dmitrovsky will be co-leading this year's trip and will be joined by her ... http://campusj.com/2007/05/20/dartmouth-hillel-sends-multi-faith-mission-to-lithuania/ Barnard College's outgoing president Judith Shapiro, speaking at the school's commencement ceremonies, quoted from the Jewish philosopher Hillel during her remarks. President Judith Shapiro, whose speech at Commencement this year comes in the shadow of her announcement that she will resign in the spring of 2008, quoted the philosopher Hillel, who ... http://campusj.com/2007/05/20/barnard-commencement-features-hillel-citation/ Northwestern University hosted "Silenced Voices: A Genocide Survivor Panel" this past Tuesday, sponsored by the campus Hillel along with the Sheil Catholic Center, Northwestern University Darfur Action Committee and NUnite. With approximately 200 people in attendance, the panel featured speeches on the Aremenian genocide during World War I through the ... http://campusj.com/2007/05/20/northwestern-genocide-panel-features-holocaust-survivor-among-others/ Acrylic and ink collages, as well as poems, created by Colette Brunschwig and Paul Celan will be on display through June 17 at the University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Both artists were "European-Jewish victims of World War II," and the work on display reflects their experiences as ... http://campusj.com/2007/05/20/jewish-art-on-display-at-university-of-oregon-museum/ Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who is often criticised as being too right-wing in his support for Israeli policies, spoke at Stanford University last week. The focus of his lecture was the deterioration of dialogue on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly on college campuses, where he said "name-calling, dehumanization, [and] polemics" ... http://campusj.com/2007/05/20/alan-dershowitz-speaks-on-israeli-palestinian-conflict-torture-at-stanford/ Hillel and Chabad at the University of Kansas held a meeting earlier this month in order to honor the memory of Liviu Librescu, the Holocaust survivor and professor who was killed in the Virginia Tech massacre. The event featured discussions and a PowerPoint presentation on Librescu's life. Marni Green, Buffalo Grove, ... http://campusj.com/2007/05/20/university-of-kansas-jewish-groups-honor-fallen-virginia-tech-professor/ The Maryland Food Collective, which serves students at the University of Maryland, came under fire recently when one of their workers refused to serve a student because she was wearing a shirt emblazoned with the words, "I Stand With Israel." The incident prompted a letter to the campus newspaper, which ... http://campusj.com/2007/05/09/refusal-of-maryland-u-co-op-to-serve-jewish-student-sparks-controversy-apology/ On April 25, the Student Medical Ethics Society at Yeshiva University held a panel discussing surrogate motherhood. At the invitation of the group, the director of the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University, Dr. Adrienne Asch, joined the dean of Center for the Jewish Future, Rabbi Kenneth Brander, to speak ... http://campusj.com/2007/05/09/medical-ethics-society-discusses-surrogate-motherhood-at-yeshiva-university/