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In early March, members of Students for Humane And Responsible Economics (SHARE) organized a petition saying that Ec 10 fails to stimulate critical thinking about economics or present a diversity of perspectives within the discipline.
But amid the harsh words for Hornstine and her family, some defend her academic merit. Ewing, the senior who criticized the petition against Hornstine as insensitive, said he once judged the high school senior in a mock trial competition.
“Her actions are unbecoming of a Harvard student, and they make the rest of us look bad in association,” Knobler said. “Some of the comments on the petition have been, ‘This is typically what I expect of a...
Both Graham and Hanson signed a petition last year calling for divestment from Israel in protest of Israel’s counter-terrorism operations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Graham later removed his name from the petition.
In a morning prayers address at Memorial Church last fall, University President Lawrence H. Summers described the petition and other calls for the University to divest from Israel as anti-Semitic “in their effect if not in their intent.”