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...students making the complaint agreed to compose a written statement detailing their criticisms and send it to Thernstrom, the professor said...
Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom said he has waited three weeks for a statement from the students who first complained to a College committee in February about his portion of Historical Studies A-25, "The Peopling of America...
Early last month, several students presented their concerns about Thernstrom's comments to the Committee on Race Relations--a non-disciplinary body which hears complaints about racial issues. The students discussed the problem with Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Assistant Dean for Minority Affairs Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, who are all members of the committee...
...yesterday, Thernstrom said he had heard nothing. "I don't even know what I'm accused of," said Thernstrom. "I don't know where the students are [in preparing their statement], which is a long time given the seriousness of the charges...
...former section person in Professors Bailyn and Thernstrom's "Peopling of America," I was surprised and indignant to read in last Tuesday's Crimson that Professor Thernstrom had been formally charged by students with allegedly having made "racially insensitive" remarks in his lectures. Having attended Professor Thernstrom's lectures in 1985, I am convinced this charge is entirely unfounded, and deplore the students' ill-considered decision to attack the moral integrity of one of the university's most thoughtful and compassionate teachers and scholars. Even more disturbing is the refusal of anyone, other than Professor Thernstrom, to raise...