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...issue was brought up when Yale President Benno C. Schmidt said that a mid-October defacement of a Jewish student's door with swastikas constituted unlawful harassment. Schmidt directly contradicted Yale College Dean Donald Kagan, who said the defacers were protected from harassment charges by their right to freedom of expression...
...October 30, Kagan said the incidents should not be investigated, and that "the moral force of the community should by its own know how dreadful such acts...
...Kagan retracted his remarks the next day, after Schmidt issued a written statement that said that "these acts of bigotry and cowardice breached the Yale community's basic principle in an intolerable...
...retraction, Kagan said he was aware of the "extent and gravity of the incident" and that he fully "agreed with Schmidt's statement condemning the incidents...
...only imagine: Bok and Kagan, sitting by the pool together, sipping tropical drinks and trading old Ivy League administration stories. The Center could well become the new vacation hot-spot, a kind of intellectual rest home. Let's just hope we don't start hearing news stories about Neil Rudenstine taking a much-needed version in the Crimea...