Comments on: Intifada, Ithaca-Style

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:31:45 +0000

Thanks for letting me know about who wrote the headline. I’m not a journalist, so I didn’t know that. My objection is deeper, however, than the headline. Why didn’t you interview more people at Ithaca College? It seems that you spoke to one faculty member and a couple of students. You didn’t talk to anybody in the administration, as far as I could tell, to get their point of view. I teach at Ithaca College and I can tell you that there was no “campus-wide” battle. The article gives a very distorted picture of the mood on campus by failing to let the reader know about the variety of views at the college on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:53:36 +0000

Hi, just to let you know — writers don’t create their own headlines — in fact, we often have no idea what they will be until they’re published. Editors always write the headlines.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:25:36 +0000

Ms. Udasin, why didn’t you interview a much wider range of people at Ithaca College for your story published in the Jewish Week? It’s entirely false to talk about a “campus-wide battle” at Ithaca College over the publication of Emily McNeill’s article in ICView, and it’s equally ridiculous to headline your article, “Intifada, Ithaca Style.” To use the term “intifada” implies violent confrontations in which people may be killed. No such physical confrontations have occurred at either of the campuses here.