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...search for a Holocaust studies chair has ended. After consulting with the search committee, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and the potential donors, the Kenneth and Evelyn Lipper Foundation, announced this week they have agreed to reallocate the already donated portion of the money intended to endow a Helen Zelaznik Professorship for Holocaust and Cognate Studies to the Lipper Center for Computational Genetics at the Harvard Medical School...
...delighted to see the Lipper's funds being put to such immediate good use in the Medical School," said Knowles, yet his enthusiasm belies the disappointing result of this donation: Harvard surrendered its chance to become a leader in Holocaust research after a disappointingly meager and questionable search in this vital area. With a greater effort, Harvard easily could have found someone for this important position...
Perhaps even a greater concern than the decision to reallocate the money was the shoddy process by which the University searched for a scholar to fill the proposed chair. According to Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies Charles S. Maier, the committee chair, some members of the search committee, though qualified scholars in the field, objected to the idea of a professorship solely devoted to the Holocaust and its causes...
...University had questions about the legitimacy of a professorship in Holocaust studies, these issues should have been resolved before a committee began a search for someone to fill the position. It is no surprise that the committee could not agree on a candidate given the dissension in its ranks over the position's validity. Conducting a half-hearted search and then turning over the money to a program at the medical school, however meritable, displays a insensitivity on the part of the University to what is a burgeoning and controversial area of study...
JONESBORO: After weekend memorial services for the five Arkansas school shooting victims, the search for the reasons behind the killing continues. TIME has spoken to the friends and relatives of 13-year-old suspect Mitchell Johnson, and two starkly different pictures have emerged. One is of a boy who sang in the school choir, who remained unaffected by his parents' divorce, and whose most violent hobby was to trim hamburgers in his grandfather's butcher shop...