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...Paul Horowitz ’65 speaks swiftly, his mouth struggling to keep pace while his mind zips along tirelessly and rapidly from one subject to the next. A leading figure in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) community and a professor of physics and electrical engineering at Harvard, he radiates quirky genius...
...College, will keep her job, despite an internal investigation that shows she plagiarized the work of two former students and a fellow professor, in a decision that mirrors recent incidents at Harvard Law School. The graduate school of education announced last week that it has reprimanded Constantine, but Marcia Horowitz, a spokeswoman for the college, declined to comment on the nature of the penalty due to the issue’s ongoing process. “The specific sanctions were serious,” she said. In a statement released last week, the college affirmed that the school...
...foster this sort of open dialogue and advocate for constructive change, American university students have instead focused their political engagements in ways that promote polarization and demonization, not compromise.“Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” a five-day campaign organized by arch-conservative David Horowitz, is the most dramatic example of the disturbing and destructive direction campus activism has taken. Planned as “the biggest conservative campus protest ever,” the anti-Islamic blitz co-opted tactics typically employed by the radical left. During the week of October 22-25, Horowitz...
...Kwong ’09 said Horowitz’s center had solicited the club by mail, but that he had decided against taking part in the campaign “because there are a lot more meaningful ways of spreading the word against Islamic extremism.” Horowitz said the Harvard College Republicans had expressed interest in the week, but said they had probably been intimidated out of taking part in the movement by “revolutionary political groups.” “I regard university campuses as some of the least free areas...
...Unsurprisingly, Horowitz himself has a fairly accepted reputation for being a racist, most famously for his commentary on “the melodrama of black victimization and white oppression.” And it comes as no surprise to discover that the David Horowitz Freedom Center—a 501(c)(3) non-profit—is funded by explicitly far-right private foundations, many of which made their millions from Gulf Oil (according to mediatransparency.org), and thus would have a vested interest in continuing to shore up support for the “War on Terror?...