In a letter to the editor, Wayne State University Board of Governors member Eugene Driker commented about the Oct. 19 article, "Anti-Israel Propaganda," which discussed the rally urging Wayne State to divest from Israel. Driker wrote, "Your article about an anti-Israel group that gathered in a public space on the Wayne State University campus correctly noted that it was made up of no more than 25 people. A group of Jewish counter-protesters, of equal size, was right there to set the record straight about Israel and her policies. That's exactly as it should be on a university campus." Driker added that Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid's "prompt and unequivocal rejection of the demand of this fringe group, many of whom are not WSU students, that the university divest from Israel, has been widely publicized and has received strong praise from as far away as Manchester, England." Driker also noted WSU's close connection to the Detroit Jewish community which he described as deep and longstanding. "Three of WSU's eight member Board of Governors are Jewish. As the community's recent demographic study noted, far more members of our community are graduates of WSU than any other university."