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University President Drew G. Faust said yesterday that she will consider creating a committee to investigate free speech at Harvard. Faust’s announcement at the meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences came in the midst of an ongoing clash between anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82 and law professor Alan M. Dershowitz. Matory has claimed that critics of Israel like himself “tremble in fear” from repercussions for their views and urged his colleagues to pass a one-sentence affirmation of “civil dialogue...
...served as president of the American Ethnological Society. His colleagues remember Maybury-Lewis, who was the chair of the anthropology department from 1971 and 1981, as a tireless advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples around the world. Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82 recalled his extraordinary empathy. He said that Maybury-Lewis “fought heroically” for the peoples he worked with and “always respected other human beings.” In 1972, with his wife Pia Maybury-Lewis, he founded Cultural Survival...
...Lorand Matory ’82 is professor of anthropology and of African and African-American studies...
Anthropology and African-American studies professor J. Lorand Matory ’82 thinks so. At a recent Faculty meeting, he proposed that Harvard reaffirm “civil dialogue,” arguing that critics of Israel “tremble in fear” on campus...
...Harvard, hard-left radicals, led by Professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, claim that they are being muzzled. At last week’s Faculty meeting, Matory alleged that critics of Israel like him “tremble in fear” when they express their views at Harvard. He submitted a motion to resolve that “this Faculty commits itself to fostering civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas...