Stanford Faculty Protest Rumsfeld Selection to Think Tank

[babylonsister]

Stanford Faculty Protest Rumsfeld Selection to Think Tank
by Josh Richman

Stanford University faculty members are protesting former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s appointment as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Renowned professor emeritus of psychology Philip Zimbardo, who has publicly blamed Rumsfeld and other Bush Administration officials for the notorious abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, is among a protest petition’s “instigators,” as he put it.0918 08

“We think he has distinguished himself for all the wrong things than what the university should stand for and what America should stand for,” Zimbardo said Monday, adding that about 118 people had signed the petition by Sunday, but the number should increase rapidly when the academic quarter begins next week.

The Hoover Institution announced Sept. 7 that Rumsfeld will be a visiting fellow serving on a task force of scholars and experts focused upon issues pertaining to “ideology and terror.”

“Hoover is in a sense independent of Stanford but it’s always linked to Stanford,” Zimbardo said - the conservative public-policy think tank is located on the university’s campus, but the faculty senate has no input on its appointments. “They can have any fascist they want there, and they do… We’ve never protested before but this seems to be egregious.”

The Hoover Institution hadn’t returned calls seeking comment late Monday afternoon.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/18/3932/

[lonestarnot]

1. Rummy: Nobody likes me, nobody wants me, going to the garden to eat worms,

big fat juicy worms, little bitty scrawnie worms, going to the garden to eat worms.

[tigereye]

2. Zimbardo is cool. Good for them!

[EFerrari]

3. "they can have any facist they want there"

Good for Zimbardo.

[EVDebs]

4. Stanford Stink Tank ? nt

[peacetalksforall]

5. One of the few good things living under the serfdom in the process of being created by

PNACer-barons - is that I get to name a hero du jour for myself - today it's Philip Zimbardo (and the other 117 heros at Stanford.) K & Rec.

Keep Rumsfeld down on his estate at Mt. Misery.

[Hangingon]

6. Funny I recall lots of protests about Hoover Institute scholars.

Maybe no so loud. Of course, I applaud Zimbardo's acceptance of academic freedom - just sarcasm.

[cosmicdot]

7. flashback to April 2006

NEWS UPDATE: Protests force Bush to relocate Hoover meeting; three students detained

By Amit Arora

NEWS| Although President George W. Bush was scheduled to meet with fellows at the Hoover Institution on Friday, the presence of more than 1,000 protestors forced him to change his plans and meet with advisers and faculty members at the residence of former Secretary of State and Hoover Fellow George Shultz on the outskirts of the Stanford campus.

http://daily.stanford.edu/2006/4/21


http://www.hoover.org/about/directory/boardOfOverseers