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...move to the larger issue, I disagree with Mr. Emmerich's assessment that CUE meetings are "secret." Although interpretations may differ, I believe (as does Webster's) that "secret" means keeping information from general knowledge. From this understanding, an important fact emerges: the CUE does not "conduct its meeting in secret" because--save for the 'Core Curriculum' meeting of February 6--minutes are available for every CUE meeting as well as reports from any CUE member, including its chairperson Dean Bowersock...
...would like to take issue with J. Wyatt Emmerich's editorial "Harvard: Behind Closed Doors," published in your February 13, 1978 edition. First, a clarification should be made: the blanket on the Report on the Core Curriculum is temporary; as I understand it, the Core report will be made public as soon as it is formally introduced to the Faculty. The justification for the confidentiality was delivered to myself and other members of the Educational Resource Group (ERG) by Associate Dean Glen W. Bowersock; he explained that a breach of protocol might irritate Faculty members to such a degree that...
...timely question. --J. Wyatt Emmerich...
...Thus, Emmerich states repeatedly that Dawkins distorts the truth when in fact Dawkins, under the watchful eye of such biologists as John Maynard Smith and Robert Trivers, is careful to qualify his statements to keep them honest. Is it not Emmerich who is distorting the truth when he asks, "and didn't distortions of Darwin's theory of 'survival of the fittest' and belief in inherent genetic inferiority lead once to the death of six million Jews?" (Dawkins never mentions race.) Does Emmerich suggest Darwin should not have published his theory, because it could be so abused? If distortions...
...EMMERICH RESPONDS...