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...unable to attend the English department meeting at which the faculty voted to again honor Tom Paulin with the Morris Gray Lectureship, and so have, by my own doing, forfeited my right to have my opposition to renewing that honor formally counted. With respect to that decision, I acknowledge that principled people can disagree about precisely what principle—free speech or the exercise of judgement—is applicable in this case...
...Rein says. “They want to do big things in the world, but they’re not necessarily smarter.” Other popular misconceptions discredited in Rein’s book include: “I am not rich. Therefore, I could never attend Harvard University;” “If I’m not number one in my class, I will not get in;” and “If a famous or powerful person writes a letter of recommendation for me, then I am guaranteed admission...
...protested his appearance. Even if he were the most rabid anti-Semite in the Western hemisphere, the English department’s initial decision to cancel his appearance was irresponsible, especially when those who protested most likely hadn’t been planning to attend the event until they had read Paulin’s quotes...
...news that a Harvard teacher might be a homosexual led President Lowell to join a special secret session of The Court on June 10 that the two Assistant Deans did not attend. At first, Clark “denied any connection with homosexualism, and he denied talking about it except to help some students to cure themselves.” Court records note that his memory was poor and he seemed nervous. He eventually broke down and confessed to approaching “S14” hoping for homosexual relations. Clark told The Court he had “been...
Today, the group plans to attend a vigil in Boston in honor of the day of remembrance. The day commemorates the death of Rita Hester, a transsexual woman who was killed four years ago today in Boston, as well as the deaths of other “victims of transphobia,” according to Skier...