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They liken the "Pollard Affair" to the Dreyfus Affair, and assert that Pollard was sentenced to life because he is Jewish.
See the Henry Moore piece in Killian Court, east of the Rogers Building and Calder’s The Big Sail outside the Dreyfus Building.
Other notable buildings include: Alvar Aalto’s Baker House, I. M Pei’s Weisner Building, Green, Dreyfus and Landau Buildings, and Eduardo Catalano’s Stratton Student Center.
French radical leftist; Dreyfusard, erstwhile bleeding-heart supporter of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 and exonerated in 1906; Cagoulard (from French wearer of a monk's cowl), a member of a sort of 1930s French Ku Klux Klan; and Communard, an adherent of the Commune of Paris, a group that took over the municipal government of the French capital and played a leading role in the post-revolutionary Reign of Terror.
It appeared in 1886, eight years before Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew in the French Army, was arrested on what proved to be trumped-up charges of spying for the Germans.