October 19, 2001

CUNY Leaders Question Faculty Comments on Terror Attacks

By ROBIN WILSON

Trustees of the City University of New York have drafted a resolution condemning professors who criticized U.S. foreign policy at a teach-in this month. Matthew Goldstein, the chancellor, also issued a statement that professors had offered "lame excuses" to justify the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The professors denounced by the trustees had made their statements at an event organized by the faculty-and-staff union, the Professional Staff Congress. Neither the trustees nor the