Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once again Josh Kaufman uses the protection of Dartboard's lightheartedness to write about something of which he knows very little. The protest by workers outside the Harvard Faculty Club, while supported by workers from the Harvard Dining Services, was ultimately just that: a protest by Faculty Club Workers. Their salaries and treatment have little to do with Kaufman's or anyone else's board plan (except, perhaps, the Faculty...
...Ehrenburg worked assiduously to resurrect their reputations in the more lenient Khrushchev period. As Rubinstein documents, Ehrenburg used his position as the Soviet writer best known to the Western intelligentsia in order to blackmail the censors: he would repeatedly announce the publication of a controversial book or article, then protest that its failure to appear due to censorship would reflect badly on the Soviet regime in the West...
...ridiculous to suggest that by debating Professor Mansfield he may have "refined his opinions." You cannot refine racism. The point of this protest was to point out to Mansfield that his comments about the performance of black students were unsubstantiated and had no place in Harvard's "marketplace of ideas...
...help us change the world and change does not always come through debate. In the past, people have been murdered, maimed and forced to sacrifice for changes that others were only content to debate and write about, for instance the civil rights movement and last week's union protest of Harvard's hiring practices. Well-intentioned action is the flip side of well-intentioned thought. One without the other is useless and the fact that they are separated contributes to the scripted manner in which we conduct the race discussion in America today...
...highly ironic that in Harvard's "marketplace of ideas" Mansfield's racist comments are elevated because they are opinions expressed through editorial writing while Jason B. Phillips '99 is degraded and demonized for attacking such comments through protest. This is the irony that allows racism to flourish, even at Harvard. We would urge Blanc and anyone who is concerned about the race problem in America to write, debate and attempt to change the opinions of people who are misguided or confused and to follow your own advice and contact...