Friday, March 23, 2007
The on-again, off-again visit of Norman Finkelstein to Brandeis University is back on again (see: Finkelstein Coming to Brandeis, Brandeis: Finkelstein visit loses club support): BREAKING NEWS: Finkelstein receives support; speech back on
"You can never be sure around here, but it looks like the pieces are all falling together, finally," Kevin Conway '09, who invited Finkelstein, said.
Finkelstein, a political science professor at DePaul University, was slated to speak next month until he lost the sponsorships of the newly renamed Students for a Democratic Society (formerly the Radical Student Alliance) and the Arab Culture Club two weeks ago.
Conway received $970 for the event, then co-sponsored by SDS and ACC, from the Union Finance Board several weeks ago. But when SDS announced that it would not sponsor the event any longer because Conway, a former member of the club, had invited Finkelstein without the club's consent, it became unclear whether Finkelstein would visit at all. Following SDS's announcement, ACC also pulled its support because, Farrah Bdour '07, ACC co-president, said they wouldn't sponsor the event on its own.
In order to receive F-Board funding, Conway needed club support.
The World Can't Wait club-which seeks to promote student activism, social and political awareness-will co-sponsor the event with ACC on its originally scheduled date, Tuesday, April 23 in the Rappaporte Treasure Hall, Conway said.
He added that Dr. Sara Roy, a senior research scholar at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, will introduce Finkelstein...
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