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University President Lawrence H. Summers last week blasted a British boycott of Israeli academics—drawing flack from a familiar foe and applause from his allies. Summers’ statement on the British boycott evokes echoes of his September 2002 Memorial Church address, in which he excoriated a group of Harvard and MIT professors who had called on the University to cut financial ties to Israel. “Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent,” Summers said at the time. On Tuesday...
...color TV set after taking one of the ten top prizes in the Viceroy filter-tip naming contest.3/15: University takes its first stance on desegregation: the Divinity School permits its Chapel to be used for prayer for black ministers arrested on charges of encouraging a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. 3/17: The biggest blizzard in march since 1888 hits Cambridge. A second blizzard three days later causes cancellation of four exams, and liquor sales to go up.3/27: George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, backs Health Secretary Marion Folsom’s stand opposing increased federal...
...boycott controversy began in March 2005 when Britain’s Association of University Teachers (AUT) passed an advisory resolution urging its 48,000 members to boycott Israel's University of Haifa and Bar-Ilan University. AUT targeted the two institutions because Haifa had allegedly disciplined a lecturer after he defended a student who criticized Israel, and because Bar-Ilan held courses in the West Bank, an area designated by the United Nations as “occupied territory...
...backtracked, citing strong internal and external opposition and reversing the previous call for a boycott. But another union, the 67,000-strong National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) renewed the controversy this Tuesday when it urged its members to boycott Israeli academics who do not distance themselves from their government. Complicating the matter is the fact that the AUT and the NATFHE merged on Thursday...
...council overwhelmingly rejected an earlier decision to boycott two Israeli universities," AUT said in a statement this week. "[F]reedom of expression, open debate and unhampered dialogue are prerequisites of academic freedom...