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Article: Norman Finkelstein.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- August 31, 2007
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Your article on the tenure denial of Norman Finkelstein at DePaul University (NCR, June 22) missed an opportunity to explain how a Catholic university applies its basic values and due processes of justice to reach a decision critical to a faculty member's academic career and the university's integrity in promoting those values. With presumed accuracy, the article characterizes the tenure applicant as one who "excoriates those who oppose his research as fools, idiots and liars." DePaul would be false to its mission were it to disregard this public insult of academic colleagues, conduct directly opposed to its Vincentian values.
The article emphasizes the charge of ...