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...Arab and, second, almost none of them seems to have a direct academic interest in that part of the world or its politics—many are members of Harvard’s Psychology, Classics and Linguistics Departments. Now, of course anyone can take an interest in any issue??€”even a controversial one. Certainly, there is no reason that someone needs to be Jewish, Arab or a Middle-East scholar to care about the situation in Israel, and I don’t mean to imply that. What caught my attention was their adamance, their vociferousness. I also...
...midst of all this debate and discussion, there has been a pervasive silence about one important aspect of this issue??€”false accusations of sexual assault. So I am going to play devil’s advocate—no, scratch that, I am going to play the advocate of evenhandedness and due process—and discuss it here...
While the outcome is of the deepest concern, the handling of the committee’s decision—especially on such a crucial and precedent-setting issue??€”was also problematic. The committee was in error for holding a hasty and irregular vote over e-mail, after months of silence regarding HRCF...
...light of the increasing number of reported sexual assaults, and with the campus focused on this issue??€”last week’s Take Back the Night Candlelight Vigil brought together hundreds of sexual assault survivors and their supporters—the time is ripe for Harvard to take a hard look at the threat that sexual assault poses to its students and how it confronts that threat...
...while the letter comes one month after Harvard filed its friend-of-the-court brief supporting affirmative action admissions policies at the University of Michigan, Blum said that this case involved a very different issue??€”restricting admissions to certain races, not considering race as one of many factors in admissions...