And here is the other article. Which role will Dave Touretzky play in
CMU's "Hauschwitz"? A warden or a prisoner?

What are those Nazi-loving CMU students, retards or what? How dumb may
students be, who are allowed to study at the CMU?

Barbara Schwarz

By Eric Heyl
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, September 24, 2006

Some Carnegie Mellon University students thought it would be funny to
mark
one of Judaism's holiest days by making Holocaust jokes.

I refer you to the latest edition of readme, a supposedly satirical
newsletter produced by members of the university Student Activities
Board.

One of the mock news stories, distributed Wednesday two days before the
Jewish community observed Rosh Hashanah, bore the headline: "Carnegie
Mellon Builds New Hauschwitz Dormitory."

Some excerpts from the anonymously-written piece:


CMU has announced plans to open a new residence hall, New Hauschwitz,
located at 6,000,000 Forbes Avenue.

"We're proud to say New Hauschwitz will boast the largest kitchens and
showers on campus," said housing Dean Adam Gobell. "The facility will
house CMU's newest eatery, the Birkenau Grill."

Newly arriving students will be greeted at the train station by members
of
Sigma Heil, and then escorted to their rooms by the Sig-Sigs. The only
complaints (about the rooms) to date have been over the weak water
pressure, poor ventilation and mysterious scratch marks on the
blue-tinted
walls.

Anyone laughing yet?

Didn't think so.

Calls and e-mails to the Student Activities Board were not returned
Friday. Perhaps those responsible for the Hauschwitz article were out
defacing a synagogue, mistakenly assuming people would find that
amusing
as well.

CMU officials said the activities board pulled most of the offending
issues from circulation Wednesday evening.

Spokeswoman Teresa Thomas would not identify the author or indicate
what,
if any, disciplinary action might be taken. "Writers for the
publication
are currently considering how to most appropriately respond to those
concerned," she said.

Dean of Student Affairs Jennifer Church issued this statement: "The
story
in readme, whatever the satirical intention of the readme publication,
offends our deepest sensibilities as a community."

The CMU community's collective memory about producing such tasteless
material seems abysmally short.

The 2004 April Fool's edition of the student newspaper, The Tartan,
contained a cartoon in which a racial slur was used by a character
bragging about running over a black person.

The university was thrown into an uproar.

The newspaper temporarily suspended publication and the cartoonist was
fired. A campus panel established to examine the controversy concluded
CMU
needed to better weave themes of diversity throughout the university.

The panel apparently needs to reconvene to categorically state that
offending Jews as well as blacks isn't quite what it meant by
diversity.

During the Tartan debacle, CMU President Jared Cohon noted that while
academic freedom ensures a free exchange of ideas and opinions, being
an
educated person means treating others with respect.

At the time, Cohon said, "It pains me that we have students here who
would
conceive of and publish such a thing, who could possibly believe
something
like this was funny or ironic."

It should pain Cohon now that his words remain as appropriate today as
they were two years ago.






Barbara Schwarz wrote:
Look what I found here, this article. The CMU creeps me out and you,
Jewish or not, should be outraged too.

We know history repeats itself. If somebody thinks that the Holocaust
can't happen again, he has the IQ of an insect.

And there is Dave Touretzky, a bigger friend to p$ychiatry (a rotten
German invention) than to his own race? Why is he wasting his time
going after another religion instead going after the Nazis at the CMU?

Barbara Schwarz

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

In response to Eric Heyl's excellent column about the Carnegie Mellon
University students who, as Heyl said, "thought it would be funny to
mark
one of Judaism's holiest days by making Holocaust jokes ... in the
latest
edition of readme, a supposedly satirical newsletter produced by
members
of the university Student Activities Board" ("CMU burns in satire hell
once again," Sept. 24 and PghTrib.com):

The late Bob Prince was fond of saying, "Trouble starts at the top and
filters down."

Now is the time for CMU President Jared Cohon to recognize and heed
this
principle so that he can regain leadership at CMU.

His high-minded, lofty experiment with diversity isn't working and some
of
his students are out of control.


We suggest a sensitivity training class for Dr. Cohon, all students
involved and all individuals who signed off on the "readme" satire
headlined "Carnegie Mellon Builds New Hauschwitz Dormitory."

This sensitivity class should include watching "The Pawnbroker,"
"Shoah,"
"Schindler's List" and documentary photos of the Nazi concentration
camps
upon liberation.

Today we have a madman in the Middle East -- Ahmadinejad, a Holocaust
denier -- whose agenda is to eliminate Israel and murder all Jews, all
Christians and all infidels. Why should these insensitive students be
allowed to fuel his raging hatred?

Only Ahmadinejad would find this sophomoric satire funny.