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...office will provide all the money required to bring the scholar to Harvard for the first year of the program in the 2002-2003 academic year—approximately $100,000—according to John H. Coatsworth, director of the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and a member of the selection committee...
...year award, named the Scholars-at-Risk Fellowship Program, will bring one “at-risk” scholar annually to Harvard and will be administered locally by the University Committee on Human Rights Studies (UCHRS). The fellowship will also be part of a larger national initiative to promote academic freedom and defend human rights...
According to an e-mail University President Lawrence H. Summers sent last week to Faculty members, the selection criteria may include the risk of persecution the scholar faces for academic work, as well as ethnic and religious persecution...
...fact, depending on the level of risk the chosen scholar may face, the committee may never publicly release the name of the chosen scholar if the committee deems it a security risk. At the end of their fellowship, the scholars will return to their home countries...
While we sit and contemplate, our military must meet very real threats in the world. Though doubt may be a praiseworthy characteristic in an academic, a similar lack of certitude in war leads to troubled places. And war, unlike a point, cannot always be avoided. Where incredulity serves the scholar, conviction maintains the soldier and if the battle must be cast in terms of good and evil to be won, so be it. Who are we to take the consolation of right away from a dying soldier, to ask that he fight while denying the justice of his cause...