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...Summers had to push them to teach survey courses and other basics.” Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor, responded to Tierney’s column by submitting an Op-Ed piece to the Times. So far, Ulrich said, the newspaper has declined to publish her piece because the Op-Ed page doesn’t run responses to previous columns. Some professors are also offering to talk to students about the Summers saga. James J. McCarthy, master of Pforzheimer House, sent a House-wide e-mail on Monday announcing the cancellation of a study...
...deal of freedom. They are free to destroy Buddhist shrines in Afghanistan without a word of protest from Muslim nations. They are free to deny non-Muslims the opportunity to worship freely, as in Saudi Arabia. They are free to deny the Holocaust and vilify the Jewish religion. Yet publish a few cartoons, and the Muslim world is aflame. Perhaps Islamic leaders will now acknowledge that their actions over many years have been deeply offensive to other religions and take steps toward a more balanced and sensitive approach. Michael Renan Cape Town...
Over the coming days, The Crimson’s editorial board plans to publish a variety of opinions on these topics from students, professors, and alumni, as well as from readers outside the Harvard community. All interested readers are welcome to share their thoughts, either as letters to the editor (under 250 words) or as longer op-eds pieces (700 to 900 words). All submissions should be sent to letters@thecrimson.com...
While the Harvard Salient faced no formal repercussions for publishing four of the controversial Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed, the executives of the Daily Illini did not get off so easily. The publisher of the Daily Illini suspended the paper’s editor-in-chief and opinions page editor last Wednesday after the paper printed the polemical cartoons. According to a statement published by the student newspaper at the University of Illinois, the suspensions were enacted at the request of the newsroom staff because of the failure of editors Acton H. Gorton and Chuck Prochaska to consult...
Keenan’s crusade wasn’t the only—or even the highest profile—contentious free speech case on campus in the past week. Far more visibly, the Harvard Salient’s decision to publish the infamous Muhammad cartoons provoked outrage on this campus and beyond, and concerned an issue far more controversial than what party students should attend on a Saturday night...