12.05.2003
Controversial Speaker Criticizes, Accuses Campus Paper of Bias
Weeks after a controversial lecture given at Brandeis University (already wracked by controversies over the past semester), Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes was at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, continuing to make headlines.
"After ending his formal speech, Pipes criticized The Daily Illini for printing opinion columns and editorials coming out against his views.
'No student newspaper has treated me in such a biased and one-sided fashion as the DI,' Pipes said..."
Students protest.
A letter-writer agrees with Pipes on the bias, calling it an "orgy of hate."
The campus is smoking the wrong Pipe, writes columnist Mariam Sobh. "The issue becomes one about 'freedom of speech.' I agree, that's fine; people can come and say whatever hateful things they want, but when it's done in such a sneaky way, I start to question things. SORF, which gets its money from student fees, decided it was OK to pay for this man because of free speech issues, yet their decision means that they will be giving him money from each and every one of us. This to me is a slap in the face."
"After ending his formal speech, Pipes criticized The Daily Illini for printing opinion columns and editorials coming out against his views.
'No student newspaper has treated me in such a biased and one-sided fashion as the DI,' Pipes said..."
Students protest.
A letter-writer agrees with Pipes on the bias, calling it an "orgy of hate."
The campus is smoking the wrong Pipe, writes columnist Mariam Sobh. "The issue becomes one about 'freedom of speech.' I agree, that's fine; people can come and say whatever hateful things they want, but when it's done in such a sneaky way, I start to question things. SORF, which gets its money from student fees, decided it was OK to pay for this man because of free speech issues, yet their decision means that they will be giving him money from each and every one of us. This to me is a slap in the face."
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