Word: cancelations
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...chair Lawrence Buell said the department’s faculty met last night for two and a half hours and voted to re-invite Paulin. The vote, which was unanimous apart from two abstentions, marks a reversal of an earlier decision by a smaller group of English professors to cancel the speech...
Buell also noted that the members of the English department who initially helped decide to cancel the talk “might have acted under a sense of pressure...
...such an obvious call for killing was not cause enough to cancel Paulin’s lecture, he also published a poem in London’s Observer newspaper calling the Israeli military “the Zionist SS.” To say such a comparison is offensive does not do it justice; ghastly, repulsive and sickening are more appropriate descriptions of the moral bankruptcy of anyone who equates the Israeli Defense Force to an organization that killed six million Jews...
University President Lawrence H. Summers corresponded with senior faculty members of the English department shortly before the department decided Tuesday to cancel a scheduled lecture by Tom Paulin, an award-winning Irish poet who has expressed anti-Israeli views...
Instead, the department decided to cancel “when it became fully clear to us that Mr. Paulin’s visit was likely to produce undue consternation and divisiveness.... Mr. Paulin readily and graciously agreed...