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...Last week, German newspaper “Die Welt” published the front-page headline, “there is no right to be shielded from satire in the West.” Muslims are becoming increasingly present in the West but it is clear that some hold radical ideas that are incompatible with fundamental values held by the West. In the face of worldwide Muslim violence, the West has an obligation to defend the freedom of speech; wariness of terrorism by Islamic groups has, quite understandably, risen since 9/11 but Western representative organizations cannot shrink from defending their...
Fisher’s motion comes just days after Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith Ryan put a resolution on the same Feb. 28 docket asking the Faculty to vote on whether or not it “continues to lack confidence in the leadership of President Lawrence H. Summers.” Summers lost a similar vote 218–185 last March...
...Expos with Henry A. Kissinger ’50. “He was a real first-class jerk; thought he knew everything,” says stoic old Uncle Dick. My paternal grandfather helped lead a petition in 1938 to get Harvard to take on a German-Jewish university student and university professor after Kristallnacht, and was told by the President that Harvard “didn’t do things like that...
...does not refer to Summers by name, nor does it mention the word “resign.” But its text implicitly calls for an administrative shake-up at the highest levels of the University. Another motion, put on the docket last week by Weary Professor of German and of Comparative Literature Judith Ryan, asks the Faculty to vote on whether or not it “continues to lack confidence in the leadership of President Lawrence H. Summers.” Summers lost a similar vote 218–185 last March. Fisher has long been...
...decision by Weary Professor of German and of Comparative Literature Judith Ryan to place yet another no-confidence motion on the docket of the Feb. 28 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting is an unfortunate, though not unanticipated, one. At best, such a vote will be a dilatory and untimely distraction from more vital issues facing the Faculty—a dean search, the curricular review, and the Allston expansion among them; at worst, the motion can be seen as a crass power grab in the wake of the Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby?...