Düsseldorf answers

If you read German, have a look at the two letters that the rector of the University Düsseldorf wrote in answer to two of the more distasteful publications about the Schavan case. Ludwig Winnacker used to be the head of the German research funding agency DFG and Kurt Biedenkopf was a politician and president of the private Dresden International University. Both published rather personal attacks in the media (linked from the page) that the rector Michael Piper answers quite elegantly - and just as publicly.