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...BELIEVE that granting tenure to Prof. Isaacs might be a good way of meeting this need for Africanists in Afro-Am. And we agree with those who suggest a role for a greater student voice. While any department must seek to maintain its academic integrity, we do not believe a formal student voice on policy questions would be antithetical to this goal. This is particularly true in Afro-Am, the only Harvard department with an outside committee of scholars to decide on tenure decisions. If there is such a strong need for the opinions of outside scholars, certainly there...
...dissatisfied. Pleased because members of ALLSA had the good sense to exercise their right in a free society and at one of America's finest universities to ignore the ill-considered pressure from their Jewish peers and to hear any speaker they like. Pleased because I concur with Prof. Alan Dershowitz's remark that a PLO official has the full right of free speech at Harvard just as those opposing him have the full right to express opposition...
However, I was mildly dissatisfied that Prof. Dershowitz didn't carry him observation one step further--to observe that, in the context of Harvard University and any other serious school, a certain edge must be accorded free speech. The right of opposition, while recognized, is not quite equivalent to it, as Prof. Dershowitz intimates. Since the mid-1960s the experience has been plain enough ideological military among the Left, feminists, black ethnocentrists. Third Worlders, the Right, and Jewish ethnocentrists display little appreciation of the delicate states of free speech in our type of pluralist society. These ideological militants must have...
...While Prof. Dershowitz's missing the opportunity to underline this primary obligation was mildly dissatisfying. Law School Dean James Vorenberg's reaction to the PLO official's visit was, for me, dismaying. It strikes me as bad form for the Dean of Harvard Law School--an institution with a reasonably good tradition in free speech matters--to appear to be playing politics with free speech issues. Surely he knows no one here--at least no serious person here--questions his preference "to exercise my own First Amendment rights and not speak." It happens that by withdrawing from delivering the welcoming...
...Jakob's world with Kafkaesque visions. As he talks to the director of the physics institute, Jakob realizes that the man "hadn't heard a word. But perhaps he hadn't said anything." The resident assistant professor erases Jakob's equations and Scrawls in a corner of the blackboard, "Prof. Jakob's space." The janitor steals Jakob's equipment. Jakob can only retaliate by writing a note to the director; "The custodian must be fired or he will gain certain tyranny over...