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...think that her invitation should have been rescinded also? No. I do think that she, Tom Paulin and others with questionable views should be allowed to come speak at our campus in deference to the first amendment, and that those who oppose their opinions should come out and voice their concerns. In a time when McCarthyism, especially against Arabs and Muslims, is spreading, it is vital that this campus, above all others, should support academic freedom of speech...
...English department’s decision to re-invite poet Tom Paulin to Harvard is at once sad and disgraceful ( News, “In About-Face, English Dept. Re-Invites Anti-Israeli Poet,” Nov. 20). In light of Paulin’s pearls of wisdom and insight, the English department has decided that it must protect his freedom of speech and invite him to campus. Does the English department really need reminding that Paulin’s legal right to free speech does not in any way entail an obligation on Harvard’s part...
...member of the faculty expresses his fear that members of the department who initially chose to disinvite Paulin “might have acted under a sense of pressure.” One hopes so. Perhaps it was the pressure of basic decency, which not everyone in the English department appears to share. This decision should serve as a reminder to the entire University community of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ critical and courageous warnings about statements and decisions which are anti-Semitic “in effect if not in intent...
...after the English department renewed its invitation to Tom Paulin to recite one of his poems at Harvard in the annual Morris Gray Lecture, the poet has told the department of English and American Literature and Language that he is receptive to the invitation...
...Paulin] has expressed an interest in accepting the invitation but final decision and details remain to be worked out over the next couple of weeks,” wrote department chair Lawrence Buell in an e-mail, adding that the visit would likely take place in the spring...