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Furthermore, if professors are intent on improving the Middle East or any other troubled part of the globe, they have their work cut out for them—as academics. How about raising a matching fund of $20 million at Harvard to establish in Saudi Arabia an institute for the study of democracy? Academics who believe in the merits of an open university can do no better than to encourage the free spread of information and of competitive ideas to parts of the world where such privilege is discouraged or denied...
Sept. 17, 2002: Sixty-five professors sign a petition calling for the University to divest from Israel. President Summers rejects the petition, saying in a speech that any calls for divestment from Israel are “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent...
...President Lawrence H. Summers infamously remarked that a petition for divestment from companies operating in Israel was “anti-Semitic in effect, if not intent.” Outrageous as many, myself included, found the accusation to be, what was most surprising was that an immensely powerful man found such a dinky little petition circulated on a rudimentary website the least bit noteworthy—that is, that he thought the petition was going to have an effect, of whatever kind...
...feet of flammable gasses, 24,586 pounds of flammable solids, and 1,080 gallons of diesel fuel in the new Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering (LISE), set to be completed early next year. The permit process requires that Harvard inform nearby residents in the Agassiz neighborhood of its intent to store dangerous chemicals. “What I want to know is what the bottomline worst scenario could be,” said resident Carol Wienhaus last night at the Baldwin school where the meeting was held. “Could the building blow up?” Eric...
...Ulrich, who chaired yesterday’s council meeting in place of Kirby, said that the Faculty is intent on pausing the dean search process for the moment...