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Last spring, nine Harvard faculty signed a petition calling for Law’s resignation. Its author, Loker Professor of English Robert J. Kiely ’60, said the new announcements do not change his position.
The decision came on the same day that members of the Eliot House Committee drafted a petition to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 requesting that he reevaluate the ban on kegs at next month’s Harvard-Yale tailgate events.
Eliot Hoco Co-Chair Emily R. Murphy ’03, who signed the petition, said she understands the administration is concerned with student safety but feels they are misguided in their approach. Banning kegs, she said, would probably encourage rather than curb dangerous behavior.
The petition, which Eliot’s Hoco circulated yesterday to the other Hocos for their endorsement, asked that official Harvard and Yale student groups be allowed to have kegs at their tailgate parties.
It’s bad enough that the reporter assigned to cover my speech at Winthrop House sought his first two comments “from several students in Winthrop, who did not attend the debate.” (News, “Dershowitz: Divestment Petitioners Are Bigots,” Oct. 8) But it seems the reporter himself must not have understood what I said. I never said that, “students and professors who signed the petition were anti-semitic.” I said that there were a complex of reasons, primary among which was ignorance...