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...recent Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) ad hoc committee proposal recommending a Civil War memorial including the names of Confederate soldiers disturbs us on both philosophical and practical counts. We believe that the idea of memorializing Confederate soldiers represents a troubling historical amnesia. The proposal was tabled by the Board of Overseers, but we remain concerned about the manner in which the HAA committee considered this issue...
Proposals to honor Harvard's Confederate war dead have always been extremely controversial. Yet, the HAA committee attempted to keep their proposal as concealed as possible. As with most decisions of the University's governing board, there was no serious attempt to promote campus debate, and in fact the committee's report has been kept confidential...
While I am grateful that the Board of Overseers rejected the ill-conceived HAA committee plan to memorialize the Confederate war dead, I am deeply disappointed that the Overseers lacked the courage to kill the idea outright. The Harvard community should be disturbed that this issue was handled so furtively...
...confidential? If discussion was so obviously needed, why didn't University officials pull the issue from the Board's agenda on their own? Why does the University persist in stating that reaction to the proposal was overwhelmingly favorable when a large association of Black alumni wrote to the HAA and the President of Harvard objecting...
...signs suggest that somebody tried to use stealth tactics to win a battle that might be lost if waged in the open. "This should trouble the entire Harvard community. Now that this issue is in the public spotlight, the HAA or President Rudenstine should do the right thing and abandon this potentially divisive commemorative effort altogether. Patience Singleton, HLS President, Harvard Black Law Students Association