November 2, 2001

Student's Neo-Nazi Affiliation Puts Purdue Professors in a Bind

By ERIC HOOVER

In many ways, Paul Fallavollita is a typical graduate student. He teaches a discussion section, "Introduction to International Relations." He is pursuing a Ph.D. in political science. To the professors in his department, at Purdue University at West Lafayette, he seems bright and mild-mannered.

But Mr. Fallavollita, 24, has also written that Jews are inferior to the "Aryan race," and that "whites will win and recover a land and future for themselves."

The situation has sparked a