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...reasons for the increase in the number of student groups in recent years. One possible explanation raised at the meeting was that faculty members have been willing to sign up as advisers for a number of student groups with the assurance that doing so would not confer any responsibilities. Ryan A. Petersen ’08, the chair of the UC’s Student Activities Committee (SAC) and a CCL member, said after the meeting that he did not see the rising number of student groups as a problem. “Students should be able to do what...
Wisse told The Crimson last week that anti-Semitism was “one of the factors at play” in the run-up to Summers’ resignation, and she made similar remarks to The Boston Globe. Yesterday, German literature scholar Judith L. Ryan, who sponsored a motion of no confidence in Summers’ leadership, said that she wondered if Wisse “realized how hurt I felt personally by the allegation of anti-Semitism...
...exchange between Schmid and Ryan, on one side, and Wisse, on the other, was a departure from the otherwise upbeat tone at yesterday’s session. “Optimism was the word of the day,” former Provost Jerry R. Green, an economics professor, said. Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, who had been one of Summers’ most vocal opponents, quipped, “It was almost a love fest...
Later in the meeting, Ryan rose to speak. She said afterwards that, though she did not sign the Israel divestment petition, she felt that she had been personally targeted by Wisse’s remarks because she had sponsored the no-confidence motion. “I felt it was important for me to put a personal face on this to make clear that [Wisse] was not just addressing a group of nameless people,” Ryan said. “There was a very real person whose name was on the motion...