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Correction to August 28, 2006 ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø Update
In Monday’s ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø Update, we erroneously stated that NYU President John Sexton had repeatedly denied ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø’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 ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø Update are contained in his August 15, 2006 letter to ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø, and were not made by him prior to that date. We apologize for the error.
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