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...myself, do Stager's friends insist on defending him against imagined charges of anti-Semitism? I am afraid they need this distraction because they cannot defend him against the real criticisms and charges that have, in fact, been made against him, not only be me but, most tellingly, many people who worked under his jurisdiction: he raised no money for the museum; he bullied and intimidated museum staff; he curbed free speech by forbidding museum employees to speak about the museum without his approval; and he violated their right to privacy by hi-tech scavenging for mail not addressed...
...these, the last must be most embarrassing to his friends and to Harvard itself, especially now that Stager's assistant has, in an interview with The Crimson (December 11), tried to make university counsel complicit with his ugly and, what she herself calls, "desperate" acts...
What is at stake in Professor Stager's determination to throttle the Semitic Museum is nothing less than the definition of a field. God bless the Philistines interred at Ashkelon, and God bless those who have exhumed their remains. But Semitic scholarship is no longer riveted simply on monuments and shards. Semitic cultures and civilizations survive and flourish in our time. President Eliot and Jacob Schiff understood that this would be so, and the men and women who reopened the Semitic Museum in 1982 understood this, too. Over the last decade the Museum has exemplified the extension of the field...
...were stunned to find that the "restructuring" of the Semitic Museum meant firing the entire devoted staff whose work we know well. Could no other solutions be found? We also question the objectivity of the Advisory committee. Was there not a conflict of interest in appointing Professor Lawrence E. Stager, the museum's director, as chair of the committee which was supposed to look into the affairs of that very same museum? In addition to Professor Stager, there were two other members of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) on the eight-member committee. Their recommendation that...
...Report of the Advisory Committee, in the Harvard Gazette and in the statements made by the Dean and members of the Committee to The Harvard Crimson: How can the Museum remain open to the public when the entire staff was fired? Who is going to prepare exhibitions? Professor Stager or other members of NELC? Where are the exhibitions going to be shown if the top floors of the building where the galleries are located are going to be used by NELC...