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Jeffrey B. Bartell: UW provost made right call in keeping Barrett as lecturer

….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)