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Hammonds’ plans to implement the task force’s recommendations were well received by most of the Faculty, though Mansfield and Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse expressed their disappointment with what they called affirmative action-style policies designed to achieve “numerical parity...
...only professor to speak in support of Summers at the meeting was Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse, who said, to subdued applause, “This is a show trial to beat all show trials.” Wisse denounced the faculty movement as a battle to stifle academic freedom in the name of political correctness...
...spring 2005, with pro-Summers voices such as Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse finding a home—and a platform—inside the Journal, applause for the University president had become par for the course on Gigot’s page...
...Clearly, if there was to be any reaction to Larry Summers’ speech, it should have begun with giving him the freedom to present his ideas in the form that he chooses to do so,” Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse said in February...
...What I understand by gender equality is that all persons should be treated equally,” Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse wrote in an October e-mail. “[This] argues not for equal opportunity but for equal outcome...