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...Dylan’s influence has spanned beyond the scope of folk, rock and blues music. In addition to selling over 57 million albums, Dylan is the only musician to ever have been considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This year, Harvard is even offering a freshman seminar titled “Bob Dylan,” taught by Professor of Greek and Latin Richard F. Thomas and focusing on the musical and literary significance of his work. This course, among the ranks of seminars on Goethe, Dickens and Rousseau, prompted a discussion around campus of the academic merit...
Gordon Ball, professor of English and Fine Arts at Virginia Military Institute, has nominated Dylan for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year since 1996, when he was first urged to do so by the ’50s beatnik poet Alan Ginsberg...
Ginsberg wrote in a letter: “Dylan is a major American bard & minstrel of the XX Century, whose words have influenced many generations throughout the world. He deserves a Nobel Prize in recognition of his mighty and universal powers...
...University receives wide-spread criticism when Nobel Peace Prize winner and South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu publicly endorses three pro-divestment candidates for the Board of Overseers in 1986 and tells the Boston Globe that he will return his honorary degree if the University does not divest. Tutu resigns from the board...
Make the issue an issue by gaining the support of the public and publicly respected Harvard professors. Intellectual celebrities help legitimize and strengthen students’ complaints in the eyes of the bureaucrats upstairs. (For example: Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu wants you to divest, too. We’ll sit in this doorway until you notice...