YSU students who have learned from him were alarmed. While the university has said it plans to maintain the center, which has a $750,000 endowment, it is also laying off another professor associated with it and has not named a successor to Labendz to lead it. “If there is no education or understanding of the Holocaust, the past is doomed to be repeated,” history graduate student Brooke Bobovnyik said at a rally to oppose the cuts on Wednesday. “None of this should be allowed to occur. … Dr. Labendz is needed now more than ever.”
