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...English department cancels a poetry reading by poet Tom Paulin after over a 100 students and faculty members expressed concerns over Paulin??s anti-Israeli views, but he is reinvited one week later. Chair of the Department of English Lawrence Buell said at the time that there was “widespread concern and regret for the fact that the decision not to hold the event could easily be seen . . . as an unjustified breach of the principle of free speech within the academy...
After protests, meetings, and the exchange of several opinions which weighed controversial speech against cultural sensitivity, Paulin??s invitation was rescinded and then reinstated...
...been honoring both Paulin and his poetry by awarding him a coveted platform at the reading, the English department was appropriately judicious in reconsidering its decision to praise his work. There is a fine line between making sure the University does not squash the speech of figures such as Paulin??no matter how odious—and issuing its endorsement in a way that could lend academic legitimacy to such noxious ideas...
...easy for a campus newspaper to overestimate the challenges free speech has faced. Indeed, students at the College still enjoy rather unfettered free-speech rights. And nuanced cases such as Paulin??s make purist arguments zealously defending the value of open debate even more challenging. But while the University must remain vigilant about keeping Harvard’s imprimatur away from depraved distortions of scholarship, it does not take much to put our community on the path of free-speech infringement. When university presidents start with condemning activists at morning prayers, university censors might then move...
...November, the English Department invited poet Tom Paulin to Harvard to recite one of his works. Soon thereafter, however, some of Paulin??s political prescriptions including the idea that Brooklyn-born settlers in Israel’s West Bank “should be shot dead” surfaced, and the department rescinded its invitation. Speculation arose that Summers had pressured members of the department to snub Paulin. Immediately, members of the Harvard community organized on both sides of the issue. Some praised Summers for preventing a well-known anti-Semite and symbol of hate from infecting...