The program comes in the wake of a faculty committee's findings that one pro-Palestinian professor had behaved inappropriately to a pro-Israeli student in class, and that students sometimes behaved uncivilly.
As a law student at Rutgers University, and one of the leaders of New Jersey Solidarity, a pro-Palestinian student group, Ms. Kates has reserved space at Rutgers this October for the Third North American Student Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement.
Correction: July 19, 2003, Saturday Because of an editing error, the Public Lives profile yesterday about Charlotte L. Kates, a law student at Rutgers University who is a leader of New Jersey Solidarity, a pro-Palestinian student group, gave an erroneous identification in some copies for the official who received hundreds of messages protesting the plan for a conference at Rutgers.
Because of an editing error, the Public Lives profile yesterday about Charlotte L. Kates, a law student at Rutgers University who is a leader of New Jersey Solidarity, a pro-Palestinian student group, gave an erroneous identification in some copies for the official who received hundreds of messages protesting the plan for a conference at Rutgers.
The letter helped galvanize a pro-democracy student movement that spring, peaking on June 4, when Chinese troops killed hundreds of student protesters among the masses occupying Tiananmen Square.
In one image obtained by The Associated Press, a pro-reform student wearing a green headband had blood streaming down his face.
A leader of a pro-Israel student group also said he has had little dialogue with ideological rivals.
Pavlo Ostrovsky, a pro-Maidan student from Donetsk Oblast, in the far east — Viktor Yanukovich's homeland — looked alarmed.
And in November, there were tensions between campus Jewish groups and a pro-Palestinian student group that had set up a mock Israeli checkpoint on the campus.
Other shenanigans have been less comic: bombs have allegedly been planted in the offices of a pro-democracy student movement ("terrorists", say the authorities).
The original plaintiffs included the office of President Mohammad Khatami, reformist journalists, a pro-democracy student group and Tehran's former mayor, Reuters reported.
