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...forum held in Emerson Hall, approximately 25 students and workers pledged to continue their work to end the Harvard administration’s “retaliation against Latino workers.” They said a committee formed by Harvard to investigate the alleged discrimination has not resolved the issue...
...deeply disappointed with your coverage of recent lectures on campus about Jimmy Carter’s book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” and the conflict in Palestine and Israel. On Tuesday, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz gave a talk in Emerson Hall criticizing the former president and his book. The next day his picture graced your front page and an article detailed the event and some responses to it. Last Thursday, Feb. 22, Norman Finkelstein gave a lecture in support of the book to a packed Weiner Auditorium at the Kennedy School...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz ripped into Jimmy Carter last night with all his hallmark bluster, excoriating the former President for refusing to engage in a debate and calling his latest book an “ahistorical” work. In a 90-minute solo appearance at Emerson Hall, Dershowitz extended his public assault on Carter’s book “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” which was released in November. He criticized the book’s argument and called Carter’s writing irresponsible, saying that the situation in Israel could...
...path for the study of texts within the context of other cultures. Longfellow resided at the famous Craigie House, which had been used as headquarters by George Washington during the Revolutionary War. The house was the meeting place of the Saturday Club, a literary salon including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, James Russell Lowell, Class of 1838, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Class of 1829. Some of Longfellow’s visitors included Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, President Ulysses S. Grant, and Oscar Wilde. Nowadays the house at 105 Brattle St. is a Longfellow National Historic Site showcasing...
...movie screenings. I find it absurd and frustrating to read in The Crimson that student groups are not interested in using the space when my records of room reservations prove that student organizations are requesting rooms at the SOCH just as frequently as they are asking for bookings in Emerson or Harvard Hall. No one ever boasted that the SOCH would become a thriving student center overnight. But the space gets busier every day, and the Student Organization Center at Hilles is already an often and highly requested venue. If room requests for SOCH space continue at anything like their...