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...quite the trendsetter. As their counterparts at Harvard did last year, the faculty of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio affirmed a no-confidence motion of their own against University President Edward M. Hundert on March 2. Physics professor Lawrence M. Krauss spearheaded the motion to protest Hundert’s alleged fiscal mismanagement in closing a $40 million budget shortfall. Did the Summers ouster influence faculty members at Case Western? “Harvard’s faculty are particularly outspoken,” Krauss says, though the answer seems...
...less than a month ago, a group of Special Concentration students gathered outside University Hall to protest the firing of longtime assistant dean Deborah Foster, whose responsibilities, she was told, would be subsumed by the new advising dean. Gross apologized to the students, saying he took “full responsibility” for what he called a “mistake,” and added that he would create a job in which she could retain a role in the direction of Special Concentrations and as a lecturer in Folklore and Mythology...
...very frustrated with the way Pakistanis are protesting against the cartoons. No one has a right to burn someone else's property. Some people are urging the boycott of all products from European countries. Do any of those means of protest actually accomplish anything? The real solution would be not boycotting products but producing them in the first place. Just imagine if Pakistan were supplying medicines to Scandinavian countries and could withhold the supplies in protest. Muslims must become independent of Europe by making themselves strong economically and technically. Noor Uddin Islamabad...
...Appeals Court Judge Jay S. Bybee received a less-than-cordial welcome at Harvard Law School Thursday when about 35 human rights activists protested his role in formulating policies that some claim justified the torture of detainees.As Bybee exited Pound Hall 202 following a speech on constitutional law instruction, he was confronted in the corridor by chanting students. Most of the protesters donned black hoods to reference the hooded prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.The human rights groups that organized the protest also accused the Federalist Society—the conservative law and policy organization that hosted...
...Anti-war protesters amassed at the Kennedy School of Government on Friday, when 2004 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass) spoke with former Senator Max Cleland and a group of veterans to a packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. While Kerry came to Harvard for the premiere of “Hidden Wounds,” a documentary on veterans of the war in Iraq suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the event took a political turn as several dozen protesters gathered together at 79 JFK Street. “Bush Lied. Kerry Complied. Bring...