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...Last week, three advisory board members of the Bruin Alumni Association (BAA), including Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom, resigned from their posts in protest of the new measures, which Thernstrom described as “over the line...
...Thernstrom, who has taught at UCLA and is considered one of Harvard’s most conservative professors, said he was contacted by the BAA at its founding last year and agreed to join in support of its goal to promote objectivity in the classroom...
...Thernstrom said that two major problems facing higher education today are “a growing gulf between political and ideological beliefs” and a “teach your own politics” approach by faculty members. He said he joined the BAA to “combat this tendency and encourage a more balanced view on what’s going on in the world...
...However, after BAA President Andrew Jones, a recent graduate of UCLA, began a series of aggressive measures—including publishing a list of the “dirty 30” radical professors and offering monetary rewards for students to gather information about professors—Thernstrom decided to officially sever ties with the group...
Another prominent conservative faculty member, Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom, says he was “favorably surprised” by Summers’ early support for bringing the Reserve Officer Training Corps back to Harvard—three decades after the military program had been barred from campus during the Vietnam...