Word: poetes
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...Prof. Cavanagh, take a few deep breaths, get past your hatred, and consider the following hypothetical: Imagine some division of the University invited a poet to speak who had suggested that some sub-group of African-Americans should be shot on sight because of their alleged political or criminal behavior, who had said that he has nothing but hatred for these people he never met. Would you really suggest that such a hateful person should be allowed to speak here as an invited guest of the University? Would you really think that withdrawing the privilege (not right) of speaking here...
...simply someone who supports Palestinian rights, as you try to whitewash him. He is someone who has said that Brooklyn-born Jews living in the West Bank should be killed (infants too?), that they are all Nazis worthy of hatred. Such a person, whatever his accomplishments as a poet, has no place in a world of civilized discourse...
...censorship of Tom Paulin is an outrage. Paulin is internationally recognized as a leading poet and scholar, and silencing him undermines the spirit of free debate on which Harvard University is based. The English department should not have allowed itself to be bullied by special interests or President Summers, and students should revel in the debate sparked by controversial figures coming to speak on campus...
University President Lawrence H. Summers corresponded with senior faculty members of the English department shortly before the department decided Tuesday to cancel a scheduled lecture by Tom Paulin, an award-winning Irish poet who has expressed anti-Israeli views...
Paulin, a lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford, was slated to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture tonight because of his literary accomplishments and stature as a poet, Buell wrote...