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...English department’s decision to re-invite poet Tom Paulin to Harvard is at once sad and disgraceful ( News, “In About-Face, English Dept. Re-Invites Anti-Israeli Poet,” Nov. 20). In light of Paulin’s pearls of wisdom and insight, the English department has decided that it must protect his freedom of speech and invite him to campus. Does the English department really need reminding that Paulin’s legal right to free speech does not in any way entail an obligation on Harvard’s part...
...after the English department renewed its invitation to Tom Paulin to recite one of his poems at Harvard in the annual Morris Gray Lecture, the poet has told the department of English and American Literature and Language that he is receptive to the invitation...
...statement, Summers said he hoped that any protesters would air their views “in responsible ways” and that those attending Paulin’s reading would not disrupt the poet...
...colleague of Paulin’s at Columbia University—where the poet is currently a visiting lecturer—said the remarks were giving people the wrong impression of his friend...
...English professor who extended the original invitation to Paulin agreed with the poet to cancel the visit, according to Enrique Corredera, director of university communications at the University of Vermont...