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Correction to August 28, 2006 FIREUpdate
In Monday’s FIREUpdate, we erroneously stated that NYU President John Sexton had repeatedly denied ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½â€™s claims that the NYU administration’s actions in the Mohammed cartoon controversy constituted censorship. While , even going so far as to , President Sexton himself did not respond to any of FIRE’s repeated entreaties until after we wrote to NYU’s Board of Trustees. The statements attributed to President Sexton in the FIREUpdate are contained in his August 15, 2006 letter to ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½, and were not made by him prior to that date. We apologize for the error.
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