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...Guinier, Hafler, Leaning and Rosen could not be reached for comment...
Since late December, the Winthrop search committee has held interviews in its dining hall with some of the University’s most well-known Faculty members, including Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology William Gelbart, Boskey Professor of Law Lani Guinier ’71, Breakstone Professor of Neurology David A. Hafler, Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, Harvard School of Public Health Professor Jennifer Leaning ’68 and Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs Stephen P. Rosen...
Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier suggested the following passage from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “A Testament to Hope” at the service celebrating his life in Memorial Church last week: “The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws. They [Negro demands] are shattering the complacency that allowed a multitude of social evils to accumulate.” King goes on to say that Americans who value...
...Guinier, who spoke extemporaneously, used the metaphor of “the miner’s canary,” discussed in her recent book by the same name, to describe the black experience in America. Coal miners used to bring the songbird into the mines to measure the level of toxicity in the atmosphere. The failure of a canary’s fragile respiratory system signaled danger to the miners...
...What happens to the canary first will ultimately affect us all,” Guinier said. “The canary should not be pathologized or stigmatized, but [should] act as a way to open up conversation about issues...