ITHACA -- State Senator John R. Kuhl Jr., R-53rd District, recognized three women, including two from Tompkins County, in the New York State Senate's sixth annual "Women of Distinction" program at an awards ceremony in Albany. This year's honorees [included] Asma Barlas ...of Ithaca. Barlas is the associate professor and chair of the department of politics and the former director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity at Ithaca College. **** Barlas is virulantly Anti-Republican, Anti-American and appears to be an Anti-Semite.Shortly after September 11, Barlas penned a column for the Ithaca College Alumni magazine in...