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Summers rightly suggested that the University respond with a zero-tolerance policy reaffirming the institution??s core values. One of these values is a meaningful commitment to diversity. As BLSA wrote in its letter, “Racial harassment is not a matter of damage control or public relations, but a call for leadership.” It’s time for Summers and the administration to make comprehensive reform. Transforming the University into a training ground for diversity, rather than a breeding ground for ignorance, is the first step...
...said “was a pioneer in the fight against slavery, and in establishing the first multiracial society in human history.” He seems to forget that it is America who unduly enslaved blacks in the first place and perpetuated that “peculiar institution?? for 32 years after the British Empire outlawed...
...lack of student input isn’t exactly “outrageous”—after all, Harvard isn’t a democracy, it’s a private institution??but if Summers really wanted to remind the faculties of the existence of the statement, he could have done that without adding any language to the document. He would have looked far less heavy-handed and accomplished even more if he had taken a cue from Professors Phillip A Kuhn and James Engell—who suggested reaffirming the statement in a September Faculty...
...last five years, the KSG has been growing vigorously. The faculty has grown by 40 percent, and the number of academic citations awarded to faculty members increased by more than 200 percent. Clearly this expansion will not continue unabated, but the KSG must remain vigilant in preserving the institution??s priority of academic excellence. Faculty hirings should only be cut as a last resort—undoubtedly there are other areas of the budget that could be trimmed first...
...Committee on College Life (CCL) voted to grant the Hasty Pudding Social Club student group status early Friday morning, officially ending the social institution??s 206 years of independence from the College...