We have been following the story of the pseudo-academic institution calling itself "DePaul University" for some time. But we take our hats off to blogger Madflack, who reduced us to tears of laughter in its expose of DePaul. DePaul, you recall, is the circus in which Prof. Thomas Klocek was fired because he dared to express politically unpopular (at DePaul that is) opinions in support of Israel when speaking to some campus jihadniks. DePaul is ALSO the institution in which Holocaust Denier Norman Finkelstein is now up for tenure, retained by DePaul in the name of "acaemic freedom", and never mind if he has ever done any scholarly research or has any academic publications. DePaul has hosted a "Palestinian art" exhibit that was crude anti-Israel propaganda. The President of DePaul, nominally affilated with the Catholic Vincentians, Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, defended the performance on the campus of the "Vagina Monologues." DePaul recently sponsored a scholarly appearance on campus by your favorite Cigar Store Indian and mine, Ward Churchill.

Mad Flack has composed a commentary comparing the heads of DePaul at length to the characters in the Beverly Hillbillies:

On Dean Dumbleton, the DePaul Dean whose name is pronounced with the accent on "Dumb", he writes:

"Dr. Susanne Dumbleton would never have tolerated such foolishness. She would have leapt to Jethro’s side in an instant. Susanne is dean of the School of New Learning at DePaul University, the home of the famous Blue Demon basketball team, and when she heard what Professor Thomas Klocek did to those poor Palestinian kids at a Student’s Activities Fair last September, she blew her stack. She went after that rascal like a chicken after a June bug, like Big Brother after Winston Smith, like Uncle Joe after a kulak That kind of thing had to be nipped in the bud. DePaul’s PC Code had to be upheld. And there was no time to waste—no time for such silly nonsense as a hearing. And Klocek didn’t get one; he was, forthwith, suspended with pay."

On the Rev Den, the Prez, he writes:

"Holtschneider wrote a letter to the Denver Rocky Mountain News. “Klocek acted in a belligerent and menacing manner toward students who were passing out literature,” he wrote. “He (Klocek) raised his voice, threw pamphlets at students, pointed his finger in their faces…DePaul offered to give Klocek a spring quarter assignment if he met with the students to apologize…He refused….Jethro also refused to apologize. Three Stooges lunch buckets are almost as rare as anatomically correct Shirley Temple dolls though not as highly prized. Should Klocek have apologized to DePaul’s teacher’s pets? No. No one should apologize for protesting the distribution of hate literature. …Maybe Uncle Jed should have sent Jethro to DePaul instead of to Oxford Grammar—there’s not much difference in the intellectual atmosphere and the kids would be more Jethro’s size. Naw—sooner or later Granny would hear about those nasty Blue Demons and would descend on the campus with a hickory switch. Eventually, she would get to the source of the problem—Dumbleton and Holtschneider."

Meanwhile, Finkelstein, who is up for tenure, has been defined by the Anti-Defamation League as a Holocaust Denier, has been called a neonazi by Alan Dershowitz, is "books" have been compared by teh New York Times to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and he has been denounced as a fraud and charlatan by serious historioans such as Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. While Finkelstein likes to defend his own anti-Semitic ravings by claiming his parents are themselves Holocaust Survivors, Dershowitz recently revealed that Finkelstein’s mother was in fact a collaborator with German Nazis during the war. FInkelstein had earlier been fired from two academic jobs in New York for his lack of serious scholarship.

To tell the Rev Den (Holtschneider) what you think of all this, write him at dholtsch (at) depaul.edu, and - if that does work - then at president (at) depaul.edu