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Public discussion of the fellowships process at Harvard is worthwhile and potentially beneficial. Jeffrey Nordhaus's November 16 article, however, is not only substantially inaccurate but also, it seems to me, substantially misleading and ultimately detrimental to community understanding...
Several factual inadequacies need to be addressed first. Nordhaus writes that a committee of faculty and administrators has met annually for over 50 years to scrutinize carefully and endorse University applicants for the Rhodes and Marshall competition. In fact, a University endorsement committee has met for only more than a decade, and it was only this fall that faculty and administrators participated in this meeting...
...recent column, "Divesting of Divestment," Nordhaus chides Harvard's activists for failing to keep up the fight even though Harvard has not fully divested and apartheid is still in force...
...Nordhaus' explanation of this paradox just doesn't hold up. He suggests that when the "sun stopped shining on the divestment issue," protesters--who "lack moral conviction"--"dropped their beliefs" and moved en masse to "a newer and more chic cause," namely the drive of Harvard clerical and technical workers to unionize...
...ADDITION to misrepresenting activists, Nordhaus woefully misunderstands activism. The primary impulse for activism is to gain results, not chicness. With protesting as with voting, people become active when they believe they can make a difference...