….Why shouldn’t students at the University of Wisconsin learn that, with whatever evidentiary bases exist for (Barrett’s) assertion, as they also study the conclusions reached by the 9/11 Commission to which most of us subscribe? Why shouldn’t Kevin Barrett have to answer his students’ questions about how such a horrendous and far-reaching disaster could be orchestrated by our government without even one person “blowing the whistle” and bringing the conspiracy to an end?
I predict that classroom dialogue on this subject will reveal that our UW students have the intelligence and analytical powers to sort out fact from fiction and paranoia – what the university refers to as “sifting and winnowing.”
(Jeffrey Bartell is a UW-Madison alumnus and a member of the UW System Board of Regents)