The authorities have arrested prominent Iranian-American intellectuals, suppressed the student movement, rolled back social freedoms, purged university faculties, closed newspapers and moved to marginalize once-powerful political figures, like the former president, Mr. Rafsanjani, who are out of step with the current trend.
"Some kids are really struggling with it, some are fine," said Holly Ojalvo, an English teacher at Stuyvesant and the student newspaper's faculty adviser.
Mr. Zwisohn's office referred calls about the article to the department's spokesman, and so did the newspaper's faculty adviser and the district superintendent.
Four students on the school's Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board penned an op-ed for Columbia's student newspaper, urging faculty to teach provocative or potentially upsetting material with increased sensitivity.
On February 8, the liberal arts university took the extraordinary step of firing Thane M. Naberhaus, a tenured professor, and Ed Egan, the student newspaper's faculty advisor, in the midst of a mushrooming scandal surrounding first-year university President Simon P. Newman's plan to oust low-performing freshmen.
Not surprisingly, at a school that was recently hailed by Mother Jones magazine as the most activist campus in the country, the moratorium has stirred intense debate at faculty meetings, in the student newspaper, on the blackboard the administration recently put up outside the campus center as an approved chalking site -- and in the occasional and now illicit chalkings.
To produce her first sales flier, she aped the format of the high school newspaper she served as faculty adviser.
White, who pushed for the move to Division I, has seen his integrity questioned by students, faculty members and alumni, and in newspaper editorials.
