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...when I was an undergraduate) affects the nature of what is being taught, as well as the intellectual mettle of those doing the teaching. Students, irrespective of their own views, are being short-changed by a faculty that does not even acknowledge, much less wish to tackle, diverse opinions. RUTH R. WISSE Cambridge, Mass. March 12, 2006 The writer is Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature...
BARRY BONDS needs only seven more home runs to surpass Babe Ruth's career total of 714. But this season the San Francisco Giant will bat to some boos, since a new book detailing the surly slugger's alleged steroid abuse is scheduled to hit stores in time for opening day. In Game of Shadows, two San Francisco Chronicle reporters write that Bonds, 41, first tried performance-enhancing drugs in 1998 out of jealousy toward heavier hitters Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Bonds has denied knowingly using steroids, and his lawyer questions the book's credibility. But baseball commissioner...
...Harvard earned its reputation as a leader. So hats off to him for that.” CRITICS SPEAKThree and a half years after his “in effect, if not in intent” remarks, Summers has resigned. Some—most notably Peretz Professor of Yiddish Ruth R. Wisse—have suggested that Summers’ unapologetic faith and his fall from power might be connected.In an interview with The Crimson last week, Wisse stated that she did think anti-Semitism figured in the opposition to Summers. “Of course, the divestment petition...
Tensions between University President Lawrence H. Summers’ supporters and opponents lingered at yesterday’s Faculty meeting, with one of the outgoing president’s critics, mathematician Wilfried Schmid, telling the pro-Summers Yiddish scholar Ruth R. Wisse to “stop poisoning the atmosphere at this University...
Early in the meeting, Schmid read a statement chastising his colleagues for departing from “norms of civility” in recent weeks. “Most disturbingly, [economist] Edward Glaeser, [law professor] Alan Dershowitz, and Ruth Wisse have insinuated anti-Semitism,” Schmid said, according to a copy of his remarks that he gave to The Crimson...