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...that is why Senior Gift Plus is so important. It is not revolutionary by any means, but it does allow seniors and their supporters to stand up and make a collective statement, not only about Harvard’s immoral investments and the blatant disregard for community dissent, but also on the very humanity of the people of Darfur. Harvard’s investment, and subsequent doubling of that investment, belies a pervasive sense that the lives of people in Darfur are meaningless. For that reason alone, Senior Gift Plus is a powerful vehicle for forcing a truly necessary conversation...
...said they were reluctant to respond for fear of retribution from the central administration. One professor who asked not to be named said the chair of his department instructed faculty to respond to the poll by phone rather than e-mail to avoid creating a written record of their dissent...
Much of the organized student response has been in support of the embattled president, as groups like Students for Larry and Alums for Summers targeted e-mail lists to solicit signatures to their petitions and denounced Summers’ critics for stifling academic dissent...
...quite. These are questions of the Faculty’s ability to constructively dissent from the Mass. Hall party line without fear of reprisal. These are questions about an attitude that some call anything but collegial towards faculty belonging to already underrepresented groups, from former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 to members of the Committee on Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. There are questions of real input into the planning of Harvard’s future, whether regarding Allston, the Curricular Review or university governance as a whole...
...open university will take an administration and an atmosphere on campus that truly encourages free academic debate and internal dissent instead of seeking to squelch it, monopolizing the microphone and intimidating those who speak outside the official parameters...