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Chad J. Hazlett, a Kennedy School student and organizer of the Harvard petition, said the Regents’ decision “means a lot” for the divestment effort here.
Meanwhile, a student-led petition calling on Harvard to sell its holdings in Sudan-linked firms garnered its 1,000th signature this past weekend. That total is more than the roughly 800 names that a similar petition targeting Harvard’s holdings in PetroChina garnered last year. Harvard divested...
Harvard’s only tenured Sanskrit professor, Michael E. J. Witzel, received e-mails labelling him a “bastard” and calling for his death after he entered a debate over the portrayal of Hinduism in California textbooks earlier this year.In November, Witzel, the Wales professor...
Wilhelm Marr introduced the terms “anti-Semitism” and “anti-Semite” into the German language in 1879 to denote a programmatic political agenda; English-language writers soon picked it up, and in both English and German—as in a...
Later in the meeting, Ryan rose to speak. She said afterwards that, though she did not sign the Israel divestment petition, she felt that she had been personally targeted by Wisse’s remarks because she had sponsored the no-confidence motion. “I felt it was...