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Last Tuesday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted to table free speech. At least, that’s what anthropology and African-American studies professor J. Lorand Matory ’82 would have you believe. Matory, who has previously complained about academia’s pro-Israel bias, introduced a motion at last week’s Faculty meeting calling on FAS to reaffirm its commitment to free speech and tolerance of minority views. The Faculty, however, seeing through Matory’s ploy, decided to table the resolution (a sufficient quorum was not present to defeat...
...whining at Harvard is today facing a grave threat to its very existence. In a cruel blow to academic freedom, truth, and justice, the Faculty voted at its meeting this past Tuesday to put the kibosh on a motion by anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, which resolved, “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.” With such a blow to free speech, the Faculty have put their...
...indignity too great for even the most camera-shy anthropologist—Matory seemed eager to inject himself back into the headlines by turning his latter editorial into a Faculty resolution. The legislation was certainly timely—it confronted the acute lack of quotations from J. Lorand Matory in this newspaper...
...Failing to encourage J. Lorand Matory’s expression of his “reasoned and evidence-based ideas” threatens the very core of this institution of higher learning almost as much as cutting off the UC’s party grants. By ignoring the earnest, non-partisan concerns of a humbly courageous anthropology professor, the Faculty have condemned us all to a future under the heavy fog of repression and hatred. Social lubricants be damned, we must build upon the wisdom of our classical forebears and proclaim that, at Harvard, there is truth in whining. Give...
Professors had little enthusiasm for a colleague’s politically charged proposal to reaffirm their commitment to free speech at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The motion, by anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, was a one-sentence affirmation of “civil dialogue” that did not mention Israel, but Matory said it was a direct response to debates at Harvard over Israeli policy toward Palestinians. He has claimed that critics of Israel, like himself, “tremble in fear” of repercussions...