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...staff contradicts itself by avowing the importance of a marketplace of ideas and then attacking Prof. Mansfield and dismissing the issues he has raised, essentially asking him not to raise them. Commencement and Expos are obviously relevant because they have the broadest impact on undergraduate life, as two things required of all graduates. If Mansfield seems like an anomaly at Harvard, that is only a result of the lack of an ideologically diverse Faculty...
...staff contradicts itself by avowing the importance of a marketplace of ideas and then attacking Prof. Mansfield and dismissing the issues he has raised, essentially asking him not to raise them. Commencement and Expos are obviously relevant because they have the broadest impact on undergraduate life, as two things required of all graduates. If Mansfield seems like an anomaly at Harvard, that is only a result of the lack of an ideologically diverse Faculty...
Last week, the ever-colorful conservative Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 stood up at a Faculty meeting and criticized what he views as the pervasiveness of political correctness at Harvard. Pointing to recent Commencement speakers and the offerings in the Expository Writing program, Mansfield drew hisses for his remarks...
...Mansfield has become well-known at Harvard for his memorably controversial comments. In 1993, he testified on behalf of an anti-gay rights proposition in Colorado, calling the "kinky sexual practices" of gays "shameful" and saying homosexual love is "imperfect and stunted and frustrated." Mansfield has also spoken out against affirmative action, linking the practice to declining academic standards at the College...
...same time, it is important to have a diversity of voices, conservative and liberal alike, at Harvard. And the questions Mansfield raised are worth discussing. As for the choice of Commencement speaker, Mansfield cited three recent speakers--Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Philippine president Corazon Aquino and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson. "They were three women, three liberals and three mediocrities," he said, suggesting that because of her conservativism, Margaret Thatcher might have been overlooked...