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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...
...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...
...these were ventures done with cooperation of other NELC faculty. Moreover, the museum was conceived for just such activities, that is, to promote "knowledge of Semitic history and civilization, so that the world shall better understand and acknowledge the debt it owes to the Semitic people." Or, as it was put elsewhere, the museum was to "attract the general public and promote greater understanding of the civilizations of the Near East and its great cultural legacy...
They charged that the eight-person committee, which included three Near Eastern Language and Civilization (NELC) professors, gave too much weight to the academic needs of the NELC department and too little to the "public component" of the museum...
Knowles had invited comments on the report fromstaff members and NELC professors earlier thismonth. He said yesterday that he has receivedmixed responses...