Welcome Professor Ari
Professor Waskar Ari is finally coming to UNL after being hired in 2005 and subsequently denied reentry to the United States, apparently with no just cause. Ari’s arrival is good news for UNL, sure. But the federal government’s actions in this case have deplorable. Two years of silently barring an innocent man from the country, followed by a change of heart with no explanation? The government’s silence is extremely distressing, but unfortunately that seems to be the way things are done these days.
Let’s not be satisfied that Ari is coming and leave it at that. Demand an explanation.
The Comments
Dave K July 20, 2007 at 8:55am
The first comment on that story mentions “Bush’s poor excuse of a security department”. Last I checked, his ‘security department’ was keeping us quite secure. In 2009, when we have someone different in the White House, I wonder who people are going to blame for poverty, global warming, hurricanes, earthquakes, power outages, and professors not being let into this country.
I don’t know why the professor was held up, and I don’t care. In this day and age, I give the DHS the benefit of the doubt, until they give me a reason to do otherwise. I guess one lesson to be learned from this story is that if you want people to care about professors they would otherwise know nothing and care not about, tell them that President Bush is preventing them from coming to this country.