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Critics point to these info-packs as examples of the University's attempt to sweep negative history under the rug. Information on Harvard's history and presidents, for example, fails to mention the anti-Semitic and racist attitudes of President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877. Any mention of the 1969 decision by President Nathan M. Pusey '28 to arrest students who had taken over University Hall was omitted...
...consulting relation with the CIA or other government agencies--as long as it is not clandestine. They can even, if they chose to do so, accept CIA funding for their academic work--as long as it is disclosed. Pre-publication censorship, however, raises issues Professor Herf brushes under the rug: how does he know that the "pre-publication clause" is only "designed to ensure that no classified material is revealed?" Professor Joseph Nye recently reported (Boston Globe, Nov. 24, 1985) that the scope of the clause can be much broader. (Moreover, given Professor Herf's phobia of unopen sources...
Last year, when real decisions were being made about where to put dining halls and how to build suites, the College had no use for students. This year, when the sloppy detritus of unfulfilled promises is being swept under the proverbial rug, we're told that we students are important...
...rooms on each floor even have separate color schemes, color-coding the walls, rug and furniture so that a participant will notice if he accidentally walks into the wrong suite...
...notoriety when he and his roommates decorated with a Garden Party theme, complete with astroturf. "We're working on something new now--a Jackson Pollock motif," he says. In addition to six Pollock-like paint dribble canvases, Mann says that his Claverly suite will soon contain an imitation Pollock rug...