Apology on the Way

(Fox News) - Several members of the Columbia University faculty are planning to visit Iran — in order to apologize to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for comments by Columbia's president.

Last September Lee Bollinger introduced Ahmadinejad during his appearance at the school by calling him a "petty and cruel dictator" and criticized his denial of the Holocaust, support for terror groups, and many other things. Some Columbia faculty were outraged.

And now Iran's Mehr News Agency reports a delegation of Columbia deans and professors will apologize to the Iranian leader. Bollinger has warned the faculty that their visit should be private — and not characterized as endorsed by the school.