Editor:

A few months ago we all learned Dean Robert Newman of the College of Humanities, was dead wrong when he publicly accused Harris Lenowitz, professor of Hebrew, of failing to recognize a “passage from the Sarajevo Haggadah” in a Tanner Humanities Building mural. As the artist herself explained, the text in that mural is pure pseudoscript, not real Hebrew, so no wonder professor Lenowitz did not recognize the passage! Now the U’s General Counsel has admitted that Newman’s latest accusation, this time against professor Peter Sluglett for supposed mismanagement of an endowment, is also based on falsehood. When will the dean’s farcical campaign end, and these two professors be restored to the Middle East Center where they belong?

Kathy Wyer,
M.A. Middle East Studies 1993, J.D. 2003