Sirs:
After months of experiencing the horror and futility of Brooklyn College's
position (and the actions of both the President and Department Chairman)
with regards to the KC Johnson issue, I was recently relieved to hear that
Chancellor Goldstein and the Trustees, acting with wisdom, fairness and
logic, had exercised their lawful right and granted this benchmark of
professorship his tenure, allowing him to instruct CUNY students in the
very merits, ideologies and thoughts that he so acutely possesses. As I
harp upon a "victory" per se, I realize that in the end, it was the
College and the University that was so tarnished by the contumacious and
often doltish actions of a minority that would not realize the gravity of
the situation and the now obvious importance of KC Johnson to the BC
community, CUNY and the City of New York as a whole.
Now the preposterously termed "Integrity Committee" has been summoned to
shift blame off of the very people who perpetrated these far-reaching and
negative actions. Steered by a leader who feels left out to dry by his
superiors, and by a humiliated department head, Brooklyn College now seeks
to once again thumb their nose at CUNY and the Trustees by adamantly
purporting the fact that even though they were judged wrong- by the
students, the media, the public and by CUNY- it was Chancellor Goldstein
who tarnished the image of CUNY and has ruined it for future scholars,
educators and students. A more disrespectful motion cannot be envisaged.
It is now painfully obvious that within the confines of that Flatbush
campus, there exists a small, ignorant and proactive minority that really
has no regard for the very institution that has provided them with
salaries and the ability to teach.
CUNY's decision was one of merit and caring for the students and the
Institution. The granting of tenure should be enforced, regardless of
this budding cabal of ignorant dissent. My College and University need
not be defamed and slandered any further. If CUNY allows BC to deny and
usurp its' power and prevent a widely accredited teacher from helping
further generations of America, it will become an airport for the
absurdity that has hitherto been so rampantly flying around Bedford Avenue
and Glenwood Road.
Thanking you for your time and prompt attention to this matter, I remain,
Very Truly Yours,
George Ioannidis
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