Ads placed during the academic year 1998-1999

This is going to be, I hope, an ongoing record of what I am doing with the Campus Project this academic year. I had good intentions with regard to this in past years, as can be seen from the aborted entries I made in 1997 and 1996, but I couldn't find time to keep up with it. Nevertheless, here I am, ready to take another run at it.

The purpose of the Campus Project is to promote open debate on the Jewish holocaust controversy on campus and elsewhere. The Project has no other purpose.

The primary tool of the Campus Project this year is our ad headed: “There Is No Liberty Without Free Speech And Open Debate“. The ad offers $250K to one individual who is able to convince a national television network to facilitate a debate between the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) and Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH). The text of the ad lists a number of holocaust stories that have entered our cultural history but have not been examined publicly.

The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has a special “campus desk” in its New York offices, its mission to suppress open debate on the holocaust controversy on college campuses. This desk is handled by Jeffrey Ross. Mr. Ross is the one who most often responds on behalf of the ADL to inquiries from media concerning CODOH's Campus Project and this writer. Mr. Ross routinely misrepresents revisionist theory, misinforms media and the public as to the purpose of CODOH, and slanders this writer.

Campus Hillel, usually but not always led by a Rabbi, represents the interests of B'nai B'rith directly on campus. Campus Hillel is typically the first to protest the printing of any materials that express a revisionist viewpoint on the Jewish holocaust controversy, the first to pressure campus journalists to suppress CODOH ads and opinion pieces, the first to organize “protests” against student papers and student editors who follow the dictate's of their conscience with regard to the ideals of a free press the spirit of the First Amendment. Campus Hillel, an ostensibly religious association, follows the line laid down by the Holocaust “lobby” and lets it go at that–as if there were no ethical or even spiritual issues involved in not wanting to allow others to express how they feel and what they think.

While ADL and campus Hillel are the “shock” troops representing the Holocaust Lobby on campus, and while it is true these two groups are oftentimes guilty of a transparent Jewish chauvinism, that is very far from the whole story, as you will be reminded of again and again in the briefs that follow. The great majority of colleges and universities in America are not, after all, run by Jews. Most campus newspapers do not have Jews for editors, do not have Jews for advertising managers, and do not have Jews as media advisors. To the contrary. The problem of censorship on campus with regard to the Jewish holocaust controversy, then, is not a Jewish problem. It's a problem of American culture.

Those of you who read this page may be interested in participating in the Project as volunteer “stringers”–part-time reporters. Your participation could add significantly to what we know about how journalists and special-interest organizations operate on and off-campus with respect to the holocaust controversy. There are a few rules to follow: you must inform those you speak with who you represent; you must inform them that you are taking notes or recording the interview; you must inform the interviewee that he or she is speaking on the record. You must be honest, fair, and as objective as possible. The materials you send me that I find relevant and interesting will be posted here with or without credit, as you wish.

Your identity as a stringer or a source will remain confidential if you wish. For my records, however, I will need to know your name and telephone number so I can verify, to one degree or another, who I am dealing with.

With these few remarks then, let the story begin.

Where The Ad Has Run

(As of 30 October 1998)

This is an accumulative list of the campuses where it has been confirmed that our ad, “There Is No Liberty Without Free Speech And Open Debate” has run. If this list is in error or incomplete, I would appreciate being brought up to date. Underlined names are links to reports of activity on that campus.

Boise State University – The Arbiter (26 August)
Editor: Kelly Millington-Teal

Cal State-Fullerton – The Titan (15 Sept.).
Editor: Denise Carson.

California Institute of Technology – California Tech (18 Sept.).
Editor: Erik Dill

Georgia State University – The Signal (10 Sept.).
Editor: Jennifer J. Smith

Indiana University-South Bend – The Preface (23 Sept.).
Editor: Colleen Hahn

Kent State University – The Kent Stater (8 October)
Editor: Esther Durkalski

Loyola University of New Orleans – The Loyola Maroon (18 Sept.). Editor: Elizabeth Keenan

Marysville CA – The Democrat-Appeal , (16,17, and 18 Sept.)
Editor: Julia Shirley

Marquette University – The Marquette Tribune (29 Sept.).
Editor: Jody Chester

Moorhead State U – The Advocate (24 September)
Editor: Sarah Henning

New Jersey Institute of Technology – The Vector (29 Sept.). Editors: Phil Chan & Smita Misra

Schoolcraft College – The Schoolcrafter (6 October)
Editor: Cassandra Gray

Southwest Louisiana University – The Vermilion (25 Sept.).

Stanford University – The Stanford Daily (1 Oct.).
Editor: Adam Kemezis

SUNY-Oswego – The Oswegonian (13 Sept.).
Editor: Scott Stratton

SUNY-Plattsburgh – Cardinal Points (23 Sept.).
Editor: Nicole N. De Dominico

University of Arkansaw-Littlerock – UALR Forum (5 Oct.)
Editor: David Hand

University of Kansas – The Kansan (19 Oct.)
Editor: Jody Chester

University of Maine – The Daily Maine Campus (5 Oct.).
Editor: Misty Edgecomby

University of Vermont – The Cynic (17 Sept.).
Editor: Amanda Dupris

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay – The Fourth Estate (1 Oct.).
Editor: Althea Reetz

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh – The Advanced Titan (16 Sept.). Editor: Stephanie Scott

Wayne State University – The South End (15 Sept.).
Editor: James Chesna

Editor's Note: Bradley Smith created a page which was a forerunner to this one. It varies slightly from the current page and has been maintained solely for the historical record. It shows the evolution of Smith's thinking in this campus blog from the pre-blog age.