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Other corrections in the history of the Museum are in order, but let me mention merely one. Peretz states that President Lowell's hostility to the Museum, prompted he implies by his "hostility to almost anything that smacked of Jews," caused him to prohibit the curator of the Museum in 1926 from raising any funds for the museum at all. I think Lowell's anti-Semitism is well documented. But in fact he did not forbid the curator from raising funds in 1926. Rather, he crossed out certain names on a list of names submitted by the curator for approach...
...frightening just how great a stranglehold the NRA has had on our politicians. Congress is now considering the first-ever bill to prohibit the sale or transfer of guns to minors. The Senate version of the crime bill finally blocks the sale of Uzi and 18 other semiautomatic weapons capable of feeding 10 rounds of ammunition. But while it prohibits the further sale and manufacture of these 19 killers, the bill excludes 650 other types of hunting weapons from any type of regulation. And guns which have already been manufactured will remain on the shelves for sale. In addition...
These comments should shock every citizen of the United States. We should be appalled that politicians, the people to whom we trust the government of this nation, freely admit practices that seek to prohibit the exercise of civil rights. When someone tries to keep you from voting, they become as venal and despicable as the thugs of a totalitarian dictator...
Hate-speech regulations, intended to prohibit slurs against minorities, women and gays, have proved nettlesome for other universities. Courts have decreed that the codes at state schools such as the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin run afoul of the First Amendment. At many schools, hate-speech rules are on the books, but are not enforced...
...Freshman Dean's Office plans to prohibit newly appointed proctors from keeping pets in university housing beginning next year, ending a long tradition of dogs and cats in the Yard, Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans said yesterday...