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Over the last several weeks The Crimson has been attempting to provide coverage of the developments at the Semitic Museum. As the main source of information on this topic available to students, staff and faculty outside of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), it is your responsibility to maintain a high degree of journalistic integrity and to report these developments accurately. This has not been the case so far. Your articles have presented biased accounts, misrepresentation of information, factual inaccuracies and have on numerous occasions verged on libel. As [graduate] students in NELC, we feel that...
...within Harvard University. The committee concluded that the Semitic Museum's role should focus upon "the educational needs of Harvard students and faculty." (Advisory Committee Report, p.2) The museum staff's response to Dean Knowles states that the report "[g]ave too much weight to academic needs of the NELC department and too little to the `public component of the museum."' This statement is ludicrous...
...being an "extraordinarily narrow specialist," anyone who is familiar with either Professor Stager's work or the program of the Harvard NELC Department (from which Professor Stager received his A.B. and Ph.D.) would know that this statement is utterly preposterous. Professor Stager is an accomplished archaeologist, historian and biblical scholar with numerous years of experience in education and excavation. In short, the personal attacks upon Professor Stager have been unfounded, inappropriate and indicative of The Crimson's Knee-jerk response to actions of the Harvard administration...
...summary, as NELC students and as individuals personally experienced with the day-to-day operations of the museum, we would like to show our support for the initiatives taken by the committee and particularly for Professor Stager. The changes being implemented can only improve interactions between the Semitic Museum and the Harvard community. Aaron J. Brody Susan L. Cohen David R. Lipovitch Todd K. Sanders
...part, the museum's staff and visitors are victims of a review committee that Knowles stacked against them from the beginning. The committee included Near Eastern Languages and Civilization (NELC) faculty members and (surprise) it ended up suggesting that the museum be restructured to better serve NELC professors and graduate students. The directors of two other Harvard museums, the Fogg and the Peabody, were also on the review committee, and the committee recommended that portions of the collections of the Semitic Museum be transferred to (surprise) the Fogg and Peabody museums. The public, the undergraduate student body and the staff...