{"id":6354,"date":"2011-05-07T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2011-05-07T00:01:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T04:01:26","slug":"ny-times-after-reversal-honor-is-likely-for-kushner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/ny-times-after-reversal-honor-is-likely-for-kushner\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times: After Reversal, Honor Is Likely for Kushner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here, the opening paragraphs of today\u2019s NY Times article on CUNY\u2019s reversal<em> in re<\/em> Tony Kushner (you can read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/07\/nyregion\/after-reversal-honor-is-likely-for-kushner.html?_r=1&hp\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Reversal, Honor Is Likely for Kushner<\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\">By\u00a0<a title=\"More Articles by Winnie Hu\" rel=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/h\/winnie_hu\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">WINNIE HU<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"More Articles by Winnie Hu\" rel=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/h\/winnie_hu\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\"><\/a>Published: May 6, 2011<\/h6>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under mounting pressure, the\u00a0<a title=\"More articles about the City University of New York.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/c\/city_university_of_new_york\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">City University of New York<\/a> board of trustees moved on Friday to reverse\u00a0<a title=\"Times article.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/05\/nyregion\/cuny-blocks-honor-for-tony-kushner.html\">its decision earlier this week<\/a> to withhold an honorary degree from the\u00a0<a title=\"More articles about the Pulitzer Prizes.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/p\/pulitzer_prizes\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Pulitzer Prize<\/a>-winning playwright\u00a0<a title=\"More articles about Tony Kushner.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/k\/tony_kushner\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Tony Kushner<\/a> because of one trustee\u2019s concerns about Mr. Kushner\u2019s views regarding Israel.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"More articles about Benno C. Schmidt Jr..\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/s\/benno_c_schmidt_jr\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Benno C. Schmidt Jr.<\/a>, chairman of the CUNY board since 2003, said in a statement that he believed the board had \u201cmade a mistake of principle, and not merely of policy,\u201d in failing to approve the degree from the\u00a0<a title=\"More articles about John Jay College of Criminal Justice\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/j\/john_jay_college_of_criminal_justice\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">John Jay College of Criminal Justice<\/a> at its meeting on Monday. Mr. Schmidt scheduled a meeting for this coming Monday of the board\u2019s seven-member executive committee, which has the power to reconsider any board decision that is detrimental to the university.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>\u201cFreedom of thought and expression is the bedrock of any university worthy of the name,\u201d Mr. Schmidt, a former president of\u00a0<a title=\"More articles about Yale University.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/y\/yale_university\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Yale<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"The statement (pdf).\" href=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/packages\/pdf\/nyregion\/satement-schmidt.pdf\">said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cBut it is not right for the board to consider politics in connection with the award of honorary degrees except in extreme cases not presented by the facts here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/06\/nyregion\/cuny-vote-not-to-honor-kushner-is-criticized.html?ref=nyregion\">Outrage on CUNY Vote to Shelve Playwright\u2019s Award<\/a> (May 6, 2011)<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/06\/cuny-to-reconsider-playwrights-award\/?ref=nyregion\">City Room: Reconsidering, CUNY Is Likely to Honor Kushner<\/a> (May 6, 2011)<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/06\/transcript-of-cuny-trustees-speech-on-kushner-award\/?ref=nyregion\">City Room: Transcript of CUNY Trustee\u2019s Speech on Kushner Award<\/a>(May 6, 2011)<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/05\/theater-talkback-the-honorable-tony-kushner\/?ref=nyregion\">ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Tony Kushner and the Art of Empathy<\/a>(May 5, 2011)<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6>Times Topic:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/k\/tony_kushner\/index.html\">Tony Kushner<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3>Related in Opinion<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/07\/opinion\/l07kushner.html?ref=nyregion\">Letters: CUNY and Tony Kushner: A Firestorm<\/a> (May 7, 2011)<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, the opening paragraphs of today\u2019s NY Times article on CUNY\u2019s reversal in re Tony Kushner (you can read the full article here): After Reversal, Honor Is Likely for Kushner By\u00a0WINNIE HU Published: May&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,56,59],"tags":[986,555,985],"class_list":["post-6354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-interview","category-israel","tag-cuny","tag-new-york-times","tag-tony-kushner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6359,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions\/6359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}