Columbia University's "whitewash dean"  Lisa Anderson took a Saudi—funded junket shortly before dismissing complaints of anti—Israel bias and professorial misbehavor. Now, it turns out that she wouldn't have even been allowed to take such gift, had she worked in the Journalism School at Columbia, which, for all its faults, understands something about the corruption potential of junketing. Alec Magnet of the New York Sun reports: The faculty of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism voted not to send a professor along on a trip to Saudi Arabia largely paid for by the kingdom's state—owned oil company, viewing it as a "propaganda junket" that would have set a poor ethical example for students. Other Columbia professors and schools apparently had a different standard. As The New York Sun reported yesterday, the dean of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, Lisa Anderson, went along on the trip, just months before she was appointed to a committee...(Read Full Post)