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...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...
Students and section leaders said at the time that the controversy centered on Thernstrom's discussions of slavery, recent Black history, the removal of Native Americans to reservations and the immigration of Hispanics and Asians...
According to students in the class, complaints about the contents of some lectures were made throughout the semester. Thernstrom apologized to theclass, which he co-taught with Adams UniversityProfessor Bernard Bailyn, during the fall afterhearing charges of racial insensitivity madeagainst some of his comments...
...There are very delicate issues involved inrace relations. I try to be as objective as Ican," said Thernstrom in an interview at the timehe learned of the charges. "It's difficult tospeak candidly--or to say, 'There are no problems,everybody loves each other...
...student who was in Thernstrom's course lastsemester said at the time that some of thecomplaints were directed at the professor'sremarks about Black men being threatened bysuccessful Black women. She quoted Thernstrom assaying, "Why do you think Black men beat theirwives...