Thanks for taking the gloves off on Tues. night.  You did us all a real 
service for speaking your mind, something that is currently all too 
rare.  I mean this in the broadest sense, i.e. no matter whether one 
agrees or disagrees with you.  I also thought your manner of doing so in 
a calm, logical and dispassionate way, added to the force of your comments.

Let's see if Dean Slaughter can get you a Professorship here!

Keep up the good work.  Let's hope that these voices  from the 
wilderness will coalesce into something that can begin to make a change.

With my best wishes.

Sincerely,

Barry

Barry L. Jacobs
Professor, Program in Neuroscience

Dear Mr. Bruzonsky,

I was in the audience at the "Intellectuals and the Institution" 
event this evening (as well as a signer of the earlier letter of 
protest about the Rice speech) and wanted to send you my thanks and 
congratulations for the useful work you did there.  I think your 
presentation managed to create some clarity on a few of the ugly 
sides of the institution that often go unacknowledged.

I am, as you seem to be, a bit skeptical that many of the 
undergraduates and Woodrow Wilson School backers learned much from 
the encounter, but your clarity and insistence gave some reason to be 
hopeful that critical thinking isn't completely out of fashion.  I 
was surprised by the vehement defensiveness that greeted your 
reasonable question about Dean Slaughter's use of the institution as 
a political stepping-stone, but I'm glad you pushed the issue even if 
it distracted a bit from the larger questions of the institution's 
complicity.  Her final embrace of the idea was also a complete 
surprise to me, and really made clear the drift toward an institution 
totally in bed with the government, which you'd been pointing toward 
all evening.

Anyway, I greatly appreciate your presence tonight advocating some 
views not often voiced aloud (anymore, or ever?) on the Princeton 
campus.

Best wishes,

Roger Bellin

Mark - I attended last nite's debate - you were wonderful.

Can you provide a copy of your written remarks? I was not taking notes, and
am interested in claims about Princeton's relationships with private funders
who bring in professors with a political agenda (Clinton ADmin, AIPAC,
etc) - is that a fair summary of what you described?

Bill Wolfe

Dear Professor Bruzonsky,
 you have saved my sanity.  I just read your speech and thank you 
for saying it as it is.
As a former Persian whose family lost twice to the interference of the West 
once in 1918 and once in 1953, It is wonderful that some one is at last putting 
the dot on the I.
You also gave me courage to continue to believe that somehow  people 
like you with influence will bring the USA back into realism.
Thank you for your courage and thank you for the list of the people , I 
know most of their works and agree that it would be a change to have them talk 
instead of the inflated hot air heads who can scream loud.
with admiration,

<>Nahid Mahdavi


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Subject: 
what a speech!
Date: 
Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:16:27 +0100
From: 
Nancy du Plessis 
To: 
Mark@Bruzonsky.com

Dear Mark Bruzonsky,
Thanks so much for reprinting the speech. It should be required reading 
for all academics. I am not one but have forwarded it to my main 
contact.... I hope it can get reprinted more widely.
Keep up the good work,
Nancy du Plessis
 

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