More DePaul: Finkelstein to teach? Go to jail? Hunger strike?

The strange news just keeps coming from DePaul University. Two posts down, I wasn't serious about Oklahoma's panhandle, other than its shape, being strange.

DePaul University is a different manner.

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

DePaul University has canceled all of Norman G. Finkelstein's courses, taken away his office, and put him on administrative leave for his final year, but the controversial political scientist said that will not stop him from coming back to teach this fall. If necessary, he said, he will go to jail.

In an e-mail message, Mr. Finkelstein told The Chronicle that he intends "to show up on the first day of the academic year to teach my classes (students are currently searching for an alternative venue) and to use my regular office in the political-science department. If the university attempts to impede my movements, I intend to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience and go to jail. If incarcerated, I intend to go on a protracted hunger strike until DePaul comes to its senses."

Typically when tenure is denied at DePaul, the instructor is offered to teach one more year. I thought Fink was either going to fade away, collecting a paycheck while teaching in Chicago, or stay home in Brooklyn.

DePaul's fall quarter starts in a couple of weeks.

Scroll down for a related post and more on Norman G. Finkelstein.

Hat tip (again) to Dr. Steven Plaut.

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