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Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba noted that Summers recently issued a public statement endorsing affirmative action on behalf of the University...
...Verba said the Faculty ought to distinguish between policies relevant and irrelevant to academic life in determining which debates to bring to the Faculty forum. While Faculty members should be free to address questions of divestment individually, he said, the Faculty should debate and be allowed to take a stance on an issue as close to the interests of the University as academic freedom...
...some maintained that divestment, which both Summers and Verba suggested may exist outside University interests, was not at all resigned to the public sphere alone...
Director of the University Library Sidney Verba convened an advisory committee—including representatives from the Office of the Governing Boards, the General Counsel’s Office, the University Archives and the Dean of Harvard College—to rule on the matter...
...homosexuality of the students involved should not be treated as an ordinary disciplinary case. “Though the sexual orientation of those students was treated as a disciplinary case in 1920, there is nothing embarrassing or criminal about it in 2002,” FM wrote to Verba. The committee denied FM’s appeal, and the redacted files were released...