The students, she said, were "making remarks in classes, saying that [the killers] weren't perpetrators, they were heroes".
The action in Mr. Roth's book centers on Coleman Silk, an aging classics professor who is forced into retirement after he is accused of making a racist remark in class.
"Those who lost their jobs will have no chance at other universities, and those who remain will censor themselves," she said, recalling the case of an academic from Bilgi University who was fired after a student taped remarks she made in class which were supposedly against the government.
My suspicion is that the whole "I'm so concerned about the middle class" is sort of like President George H.W. Bush's infamous "message: I care" remark in 1992.
We also know that the White House cares more about the working "stiffs", as Obama referred to the middle class in his remarks in the White House Press room late on the 22d, but realizes that spending cuts not seen before in many years must be made.
These were popular sentiments in the JoePa class, and one student, a senior named Devon Edwards, tweeted Posnanski's remarks in real time, along with the comment "Most important class of my college career".
She posted numerous ripostes on Twitter during the broadcast, including one that wondered ironically how Mr. Sarkozy would have sounded — especially in his attacks on the journalists asking the questions — if he had instead been delivering his remarks to a class in the poorer districts outside Paris.
In anguished remarks to his class, Quinn told students that the discovery made him "physically ill, absolutely disgusted" and "completely disillusioned".
In her farewell remarks to the class, Professor and Chair of the Hunter Division of the Humanities Jennifer Burg reminded the students that she started at the same time they did in 2012.
