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Students Live In Terror
Jewish students at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks
say the university ignored weeks of complaints about anti-Semitic
incidents on campus until the news was reported in local newspapers.
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Crusaders Defy Anti Semites
“The fact that this blindsided them so much shows that there’s
almost a denial that any of this exists on campus,” said Shannon
Neegard, president of UND’s Jewish Student Organization.
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Students Flee Dorm To Safety Of Yeshiva
Lebovitz says he became so intimidated that he began locking
himself in his dorm room, afraid even to use the bathroom.
Finally, in mid-April, he moved out of the dorm room and into his
fraternity house.
Lebovitz was accused of
faking other instances.
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They Run To The Newspapers
Weinstein, Lebovitz and other JSO students complained to
the administration, but after finding the university’s
response unsatisfactory, the students decided to take their
story to the media.
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The Dean Is Unsympathetic
Weinstein and two students met with UND’s president,
Charles Kupchella. When
they showed Kupchella a photograph of one of the
scrawlings found in a dorm, Kupchella refused to call the
image a swastika, or even to say the word “swastika”
during the meeting.
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Jewish Student Organization 'Outraged'
“He refused to say it was a swastika. He said, ‘I
have no idea what that is,’” said Martin Rottler, a
former president of JSO who attended the meeting.
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The Billionaire Kosher Nazi
The university also made headlines several years ago when it
accepted a $100 million donation from a casino mogul who reportedly
celebrated Hitler’s birthday and stocked his office with Nazi
paraphernalia.
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Professor Jack Weinstein
Jack Weinstein, a professor of philosophy, said that overt
antisemitism has created a “climate of uncomfortableness”
embodied in myriad small gestures, including occasional attempts by
students to proselytize, and professors who refuse to make allowances
for Jewish holidays.
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Student Arrested
Based on findings by the university police, the Grand Forks County
state’s attorney’s office announced on April 29 that it was charging a
UND student, Spencer Garness, with a misdemeanor for the ice cream
incident.
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Professor Weinstein Warns Parents Of Prospective Students
Weinstein said that every year, he gets e-mails from Jewish parents
asking if their children will feel comfortable at UND. “I can’t write
that anymore. I cannot in good conscience encourage students to come
to UND,” he told the Forward. “That breaks my heart.”
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