In interviews, professors from some of the nation's leading universities spoke highly of Dr. Hut's work.
The fact is that the two communities, though relations between them are civil enough, live their lives largely apart, attending different schools and universities, speaking different languages and working for different employers.
Those representing wealthy universities spoke of worries that a required spending rate would interfere with their ability to manage economic downturns, and described the complications of dealing with restricted gifts that could not be used for financial aid.
The mainly Shiite led-opposition says that it is not interested in religion-based conflict, but students at the university speak in sectarian terms.
At one recent meeting, about 50 men and women sat on benches and listened to Beth Richie, professor of criminal justice and African-American studies at the university, speak about her book, "Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered Black Women".
"Stanford, as a university, speaks for itself.
Khan, who studied mass communication and journalism at university, speaks with a deep movie-trailer timbre.
Carmela Karnoutsos, a professor of American history at New Jersey City University, spoke about the Black Tom explosion.
To be on a university campus when you're not a member of the university speaking for the university — the whole idea seemed completely aggravating".
The university speaks for a small and diminishing force within American Protestantism and, by extension, within American society generally.
