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Fortunately, Harvard students have not remained silent on Ec 10. Whether from dislike for the class or a belief in competition, 708 undergraduates have signed a petition calling for an alternative to Ec 10. By voting against an alternative course, the Economics Department’s Committee on Undergraduate Education...
It wasn’t always like this. As recently as September, Summers was taking a risky, unabashed public position on Israel and anti-Semitism—famously declaring signers of the Israel divestment petition “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.?...
The idea for the alternative course first appeared in a petition signed by over 700 students and alumni last month. The petition, circulated by the Students for Humane and Responsible Economics (SHARE), expressed frustration with what signers called the “conservative” slant of the class.
But the proposal has met with resistance, both from professors, who defend Feldstein’s course as sufficiently balanced, and from some students who signed a counter-petition arguing that the competing classes would segregate students along ideological lines.
“It’s completely outrageous that they rejected this after hundreds of students signed a petition,” said Daniel DiMaggio ’04, an active member of SHARE who took Ec 10 last year.