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Pro-Life students at the University of Buffalo came under fierce attack by a group of professors who compared them to a lynch mob. At least one professor was arrested after she launched a profanity-laced tirade directed toward the students. The professors were outraged after the Students for Life club received permission to display a pro-life exhibit that included graphic images of abortion victims along with Holocaust victims and victims of lynching. A half dozen history professors condemned the display in a letter to the student newspaper. “Anti-abortion protesters appear to have a lot in common with those who supported lynching,”...

UC professors join call to divest in companies supplying Israel By Dana Hull Mercury News More than 140 University of California professors have signed a petition urging the university to divest in American companies that sell arms to Israel, and similar faculty petitions are circulating at Harvard, MIT, Princeton and Tufts. The divestment drive borrows a page from the popular anti-apartheid campaigns of the 1980s, when students and professors persuaded universities to sell millions of dollars worth of holdings in companies that did business with South Africa. ``Apartheid is one form of occupation and domination, and what's happening in the...