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...WORTH considering how Kilson's academy looks up close. Consider what happened last semester when students adopted Kilson's tactics, coming up with their own code-word for racism--"racially insensitive"--and used it in pitting themselves against the Winthrop Professor of History, Stephan Thernstrom. The students, who brought their complaint before a College committee, objected to remarks Thernstrom made in Historical Studies A-25: "The Peopling of America," including characterizations of Jim Crow laws as beneficial to Blacks in diffusing white antagonism...
Three students in February brought a complaint about Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom to the Committee on Race Relations, a non-disciplinary, advisory body of the College. In response, Spence read his brief statement on academic freedom to the full Faculty at its March meeting. The students then met with Thernstrom and gave him a written statement of their complaints about his portion of Historical Study A-25, "The Peopling of America," which he co-taught with Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn...
...March 8th editorial entitled "A Common Academic Ground," it is suggested that increased faculty accessibility could prevent incidents like that which occured recently in Historical Studies A-25, where students charged Professor Stephan A. Thernstrom with racial insensitivity. If only students and faculty communicated better, says the editorial, then they could define the boundaries of academic discourse and avoid future misunderstandings. Such thinking is seriously flawed...
Spence's statement addresses student charges that Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom displayed racial insensitivity in some of his course lectures last semester. Spence first made his remarks at Tuesday's Faculty meeting, but did not allow the text to be quoted directly until yesterday afternoon...
...season for political activism quickly approaches, Harvard politicos have been warming up with a debate over Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom and charges of his "racial insensitivity." The discussion has centered around whether Thernstrom's remarks are protected by the principle of academic freedom. But students and faculty have inexplicably failed to discuss the case's most important point: what it says about student-faculty relations in the Harvard community...