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...Columbia University, on the other hand, a group of professors—who are generally in sync with their extremist colleagues at Harvard—are complaining that Columbia’s President, Lee C. Bollinger, has too much freedom of speech when it comes to the Middle East. A campaign is underway to rebuke Bollinger for expressing his personal views about the Iranian dictator, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Led by well-known radicals such as Eric Foner—who complained that Bollinger’s harsh description of Ahmadinejad was “completely inaccurate?...
...rather easy to spot if you’ve been around long enough to remember when it was leaders of the radical left, led by MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, who were trying to intrude on the tenure process for political reasons. I recall vividly when Chomsky campaigned to prevent Columbia from granting a tenured position to Henry Kissinger. Chomsky spoke at a noisy rally against Kissinger’s tenure. It was that same Chomsky who complained when I wrote a letter—in response to a request from the former chairman of the political science department?...
While most of the Harvard community focused on the happenings in New Haven this weekend, the Crimson men’s swimming and diving team made a statement of its own in defeating league foe Columbia, 195-105. Harvard now heads into the Thanksgiving holiday with a perfect 3-0 record. Last week, the Crimson snagged league victories over Cornell and Dartmouth by using its depth. Harvard won fewer events than the Big Red, but it managed to gain the edge in points by grabbing several second and third places. This weekend, however, the Crimson swimmers touched the wall first...
...strategy?” Good questions. Unfortunately, she evidently arrived at the wrong conclusion. The severity of the hunger strike as a tool of political protest cannot be overstated; It ought to only be employed in matters of proportional gravity. By this criterion, the 10-day strike initiated by Columbia undergraduates, which ended on Friday night, was misguided in its methods, if not its professed aims. Seven students and one professor participated in the strike which, according to their blog, came about in response to the appearance of a noose on the door of an African-American Columbia professor...
Though the Columbia women were able to win the first two events of the meet, the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team displayed its talent and team depth when it came back to win, 170.5-129.5, at Uris Pool in New York this past weekend. For the first time in the meet’s history, the Lions won the first swimming event of the day, the 200-yard medley relay. “Columbia really went after us, and that was really evident in the first relay,” co-captain Jaclyn Pangilinan said...