On Nov. 18, members of the UMass staff and the town community met to discuss the recent FBI investigation of two UMass employees. UMass sociology professor Dan Clawson organized the meeting following the questioning of his colleague Musaddak J. Alhabeeb, an American citizen born in Iraq and currently a professor of resource economics. Alhabeeb did not attend the meeting, but Yaju Dharmarajah, a campus organizer for the Service Employees International Union Local 509, did. He told those in attendance about his experience with representatives of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in Springfield. "They came to our house and wanted to know if [my wife and I] are terrorists," he said. Many professors at the meeting expressed outrage, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette. "It is very important that we overreact," said Robert P. Wolff, professor of Afro-American studies at UMass. Attendees raised various concerns at the meeting, including the precarious position of academic freedom and the danger to the freedom of all of the members of the town community. For some, the situation is reminiscent of past difficulties. "This awakens something in me in my own experience during the McCarthy era," said Jules Chametzky, professor of English at UMass.