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We will maintain several pages of links and references, creating more as events unfold. Most of them are in the form of chronologies, with links and/or citations.

Warning. Many of the links (those marked with an *-asterisk) are to Lexis-Nexis, which requires a new search. Two asterisks apply to other possible restrictions.

When we talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves ... - Wendell Wilkie

Here are the pages:

Home page of the USF/UFF website.
Home page on the Al-Arian controversy.
An Overview of the Entire Controversy.

Major postings of documents and statements.
A brief Chronology of USF and Al-Arian.
The major issues involved: freedom of expression, due process rights, and academic freedom.

Then there are some background pages.

Then there are the chronological pages.

Back to USF/UFF main page.

See also these links:

The home page of the United Faculty of Florida statewide organization, which negotiated the the BOR-UFF Contract (in pdf).
The home page of the Florida Education Association, the state organization of which UFF is a union local.
The home page of the American Association of University Professors. See in particular their 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure with 1970 Interpretive Comments.
The home page of the Middle District of Florida U.S. Court, where the criminal case is. The documents for the case are on the docket page for Case No. 8:03-cr-77.

The Office of the President of USF.
The USF Board of Trustees.
The Florida Board of Education.
The Faculty Senate of USF.
Inside USF, a periodic publication of the USF Office of Media Relations.
Al-Arian Related Documents Index, maintained by the USF Office of Media Relations.
Report to President Betty Castor: University of South Florida in re USF/WISE Relationship and Related Matters by William Reece Smith, Jr., May, 1996.

The Oracle, the on-campus student newspaper.
WUSF 89.7 FM the on-campus radio station (there is also a student radio station).
The Tampa Tribune, the only metropolitan daily in Tampa. It is affliated with Tampa Bay Oneline, and maintains a special site for Terrorism in Tampa, on Al-Arian.
The St. Petersburg Times, the only major metropolitan daily in neighboring St. Petersburg.
The Weekly Planet, a weekly entertainment-oriented ``alternative'' newspaper.

The Coalition of Progressive Student Coalitions maintains a web-page on Academic Free Speech, specifically Al-Arian's right to free speech.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's spotlight on the Heckler's Veto on USF.
Promoting Responsibility in Middle East Reporting maintains a page on Is there terrorism in our backyard?, on Al-Arian.
The Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Freedom maintains a web-page calling to free Sami Al-Arian.
The UF-Gainesville chapter of UFF is maintaining a web-page on Al-Arian Affair: Academic Freedom Challenged.

Omniknow maintains a page on Al-Arian.

Members of UFF are scholars as well as union members, and we have a scholarly interest in these events as well as a professional interest. As this controversy unfolds, we will be developing this site and posting more pages. These pages are maintained by the USF/UFF site webmaster, who would be interested in any comments.