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...Class, a 1985 novel romanticizing Harvard in the 50s-by Erich Segal '58, masters wheeled and dealed their way to secure the 'best' students...
Philolexian Society member Matthew Segal said Muslim students called University President Michael Sovern on the morning of the reading to ask that it be cancelled. But Sovern refused to deny the group's freedom of speech...
Members felt that "since the right had been challenged, it had to be exerted," said Segal. "It's not like we picked some random book out of Butler Library because it was offensive to Muslims. The book had been challenged," said Segal...
...added that the society's reading did not contain Chapter 14 of the novel, which he said is considered the most offensive. "It was a sufficient statement to read the book," Segal said, adding that the group wanted to make a symbolic statement rather than cause offense...
...Writers, too," I respond more thoughtfully. "Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, the other Adamses (Charles, Francis and Henry), T .S. Eliot, John Reed, Wallace Stevens, Ursula LeGuin, Walter Lippman, John Updike and Erich Segal...