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...members of the Harvard community involved in the preparation of the protest rally at the occasion of Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit on Nov. 1, we are responding publicly to the Harvard organizers of Jiang's visit. We have confined our comments to the following nine topics...
...Invitation: Jiang's visit to the University was arranged by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, directed by Professor Ezra F. Vogel and executive director Deirdre Chetham. An official invitation was sent in 1996 by Rudenstine because of the high-level nature of the visit. It is very disturbing that the University extended such a high-profile invitation in Harvard's name without first consulting the community--in particular, Chinese exiles, Tibetans and Taiwanese. Moreover, welcoming the head of a regime that suppresses free speech under the banner of free speech is ridiculous. The University provided just what...
Before the visit, Vogel wrote in The Crimson (Letter to the Editors, Oct. 23) that during the Tiananmen incident Jiang was the mayor of Shanghai, where he allowed the demonstrations to take place peacefully. This is a very obvious disinformation. Jiang cleaned up Shanghai by silencing the 1989 pro-democracy movements in advance. He was then summoned to Beijing two weeks before the June 4 Massacre and 20 days after the Massacre, he assumed the post of the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Vogel's letter is clearly written in the propaganda style of communist regimes. Furthermore, after...
...rally,19 took part in the lottery (the others mostly missed the early deadline on Oct. 16). The seven who got tickets are not members of any groups that supported the rally (e.g. Students for a Free Tibet, Tibetan Association of Boston, Joint Committee for Protesting Jiang Zemin's Visit to Harvard, Harvard University Taiwan Study Club, Kennedy School of Goveernment Alliance for Freedom and Democracy). The 12 who didn't get tickets are members of or spokespeople for these groups. The probability of such a pattern occurring purely by chance is approximately...
...agreement with Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III that the rally could take place in the area between the Science Center, Harvard Yard and Oxford St. This area was subsequently closed down by Harvard. The change was announced to the rally organizers on the last day before the visit (Oct. 31). At that stage, the rally was fully prepared, flyers were printed and broadly distributed. Epps claims he learned about the shutdown on Thursday, Oct. 30 at a meeting around 11 a.m. According to his statement to The Crimson (Nov. 5), he "tried to contact the organizers on Thursday...