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...English professor who extended the original invitation to Paulin agreed with the poet to cancel the visit, according to Enrique Corredera, director of university communications at the University of Vermont...
Corredera added that his university had made its decision to cancel Paulin’s visit without regard to Harvard’s actions on the matter...
...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...
Professor of Psychology Patrick Cavanagh, who signed the Harvard-MIT divestment petition and criticized Summers for exerting what he said was inappropriate pressure on members of the English department to cancel Paulin’s visit, called the renewal of the invitation “a positive move...