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...encouraging the cancellation of Irish poet Tom Paulin’s poetry reading, University President Lawrence H. Summers has again moved to suppress the free exchange of ideas at Harvard (News, “Controversial Poet Will Not Give Lecture,” Nov. 13). Free speech is meaningless if it only holds for the politically correct. As a concerned individual, Summers could have personally joined the protesters planning to boycott Paulin’s reading. By acting as president of the University, however, he exposes antidemocratic impulses inappropriate for a university president. For “Ayatollah?...
...Paulin, a Northern Irish poet and lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford, was to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture tomorrow evening...
...English Department yesterday cancelled a reading by a controversial poet after more than 100 students, alumni and faculty protested his vehement anti-Israeli views...
...Paulin was invited solely on the basis of his accomplishment and standing as a major Irish poet,” Buell wrote in an e-mail. “From an artistic standpoint, his work, overall, seems to measure up to the standard of other Morris Gray poets...
...Under rules instituted by the Rudenstine Administration, students are entitled to an environment free of racism, hostility and threatening speech,” she wrote. “An audience is oxygen to a poet, and the most effective way of showing your feelings is to deprive...