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...Tara Browner, associate professor of ethnomusicology and American Indian studies at UCLA, wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson Sunday that she and several other attendees were “appalled” by Summers’ statements...
...What Larry Summers said, and this is an *exact quote*, was that ‘The genocide of American Indians was coincidental.’ As in it was an accidental by-product of Western European and Euro-American expansion,” Browner wrote...
...have a memory of ‘genocide,’ but that could have been someone afterwards repeating his words,” Browner said in an interview last night...
However, after The Crimson read the transcript to Browner, she said that Summers’ remarks were “essentially” just as offensive as she recalled...
...Summers was 15 minutes late and totally unprepared,” Browner wrote in her Sunday e-mail. “He didn’t even have little note cards in hand, and he just started speaking off the cuff...