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From the moment he announced his intentions in the fall, the proposal met with formidable resistance. Concerns over the elimination of the flexibility of shopping period had been voiced by both the Faculty Council and the Undergraduate Council—and led 1,200 students to sign a petition against...
The spring ritual of blocking, with all of its tense and sometimes bitter diplomatic maneuvering, was a more political ordeal for the Class of 2003 than for any first-year class since Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 randomized House assignments in 1995. In spring...
Even petition organizer Alistair M. Rampell ’03, whose meeting with Lewis concerning the issue erupted into a shouting match, admits that “it’s kind of hard to look back and say it would have been better, because you don’t...
He referred to a petition signed by faculty and students urging Harvard to divest its financial assets from Israel, as well as a plan by the Harvard Islamic Society to donate money to the Holy Land Foundation—a plan the group aborted when it was learned that the...
Teaching Assistant in History and Literature Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 says that he was reluctant to join FIPJ since many of its members had signed a petition urging that the University divest from Israel earlier that year.