The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee held two hearings on the case on March 2 and 9.

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While the media and the professorate pilloried their reports, the group's charges caused the Council for Higher Education to form a blue ribbon committee last November comprised of seven political scientists - three from Israel and four from abroad -- to conduct a study of all of the political science departments in Israeli universities.

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The specter of the president of a major national university running in abject fear, and forming a blue ribbon committee that one suspects has as its mission to pre-emptively run up the white flag to the OCR investigators, is indeed very disturbing and does not augur well for the vibrancy and independence of higher education.

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While the House Judiciary Committee is drafting a proposal for a "blue ribbon" commission to investigate the incident, a senior administration official tells CNN the White House is pushing for an independent investigation of the matter.

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