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The perception that Summers did not sufficiently value diversity escalated after comments he reportedly made to students whom met him to advocate for a Latino studies department. According to students at the meeting, Summers defended the Afro-American studies department because of the centrality of the issue of slavery to...
I have watched with considerable sadness and disappointment as a vocal minority protests Yasin’s speech. At press time, 309 graduating students, 170 other students, 57 faculty members, 551 alumni, 141 parents, 3,460 community members and 68 emergency services personnel—4,756 people in total?...
Some protesters have claimed that there is some political agenda behind the speech, noting that at least one selection committee member signed a recent petition for Harvard to divest from Israel. But this is an illogical objection: support of Israel is certainly political, in any case, and the speech does...
It should not be this hard. Currently students have no formal means to influence University policy. Their only recourse is to rally, demonstrate, petition and yell.
Last week, Pomey’s name was signed under the “graduating students” section of the petition criticizing the commencement speech of Zayed M. Yasin ’02.