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...moral and intellectual responsibility in America, our university played a role in legitimizing the Nazi regime. Today, in the face of growing evidence to this effect, the administration still refuses to apologize for or even acknowledge its predecessors’ complicity. This is not only an affront to the Jewish community. The administration’s silence shames...
Then, after purges of Jewish professors and students had swept German universities in 1936, the Harvard administration sent a delegation to participate in the 550th anniversary celebration of the University of Heidelberg, alongside Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler. “Should not one be ready to build a scholarly bridge between two nations?” asked Harvard’s then-President James B. Conant ’14 in his autobiography...
...Boston Globe, during Sunday’s Holocaust conference, Norwood heavily criticized Harvard for “welcoming a prominent Hitler deputy to his reunion in 1934, for sending a delegate to celebrate the anniversary of the Nazi-controlled University of Heidelberg in 1936, and for failing to help Jewish refugee scholars.” All of this under the tenure of then-president Conant, who Norwood insists was a Nazi-sympathizer; and all of this while knowing full well the plight of the Jews under the Nazi-regime...
...when the editorial section of the DN asked what was to stop Jewish students from taking Jewish culture classes and African-Americans from studying African-American culture—much like Korean students can fulfill their FC requirement with “Korean Cultural Identities”— many students responded with angry letters...
...evangelicals, but of white women, married people, high school and college graduates, couples with children, voters who make above $50,000, people over thirty and weekly churchgoers. The president increased his share of the Latino vote by seven points, the African-American vote by two points and the Jewish vote by five points. The way to reach the red states—and to prevent further erosion in blue states—is to lead, not follow, on a real family values agenda: policies that reward marriage and education, national service and personal responsibility, that help parents balance work...