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...brief statement on academic freedom to the full Faculty at its March meeting. The students then met with Thernstrom and gave him a written statement of their complaints about his portion of Historical Study A-25, "The Peopling of America," which he co-taught with Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn...
Donald's Pulitzer also marks the second time in two years that a senior Harvard history professor has won the prestigious prize, which is awarded annually for excellence in journalism, fiction and non-fiction. Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn last year won his second Pulitzer in the history category for "Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution...
Charges of racial insensitivity were brought against Professor Thernstrom by a group of students in Historical Studies A-25, which he co-taught with University Professor Bernard Bailyn. The students claim that certain comments made by Thernstrom during his lectures were offensive to minorities, particularly Blacks...
According to students in the class, complaints about the contents of some lectures were made throughout the semester. Thernstrom apologized to theclass, which he co-taught with Adams UniversityProfessor Bernard Bailyn, during the fall afterhearing charges of racial insensitivity madeagainst some of his comments...
...former section person in Professors Bailyn and Thernstrom's "Peopling of America," I was surprised and indignant to read in last Tuesday's Crimson that Professor Thernstrom had been formally charged by students with allegedly having made "racially insensitive" remarks in his lectures. Having attended Professor Thernstrom's lectures in 1985, I am convinced this charge is entirely unfounded, and deplore the students' ill-considered decision to attack the moral integrity of one of the university's most thoughtful and compassionate teachers and scholars. Even more disturbing is the refusal of anyone, other than Professor Thernstrom, to raise...