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...Drowning out speech is a tactic of intimidation. Since the students obviously felt that the Faculty was subject to intimidation, what does this tell us about the moral climate we have spawned? Is it simply coincidence that the Faculty voted according to the demonstrators' wishes, or did the students expect their intimidation to work? Will this now encourage greater contempt for a faculty that is presumed to vote according to the dictates of a mob? Although Faculty may well have cast their votes irrespective of the chanting, the demonstrators ensured the corruption of the process, cultivating disrespect for the deliberative...
Drowning out speech is a tactic of intimidation. Since the students obviously felt that the Faculty was subject to intimidation, what does this tell us about the moral climate we have spawned? Is it simply coincidence that the Faculty voted according to the demonstrators' wishes, or did the students expect their intimidation to work? Will this now encourage greater contempt for a faculty that is presumed to vote according to the dictates of a mob? Although Faculty may well have cast their votes irrespective of the chanting, the demonstrators ensured the corruption of the process, cultivating disrespect for the deliberative...
This advance, however, seems to have been completely overshadowed by a decision that was nearly a foregone conclusion--the full Faculty's vote to dismiss D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000. Given their options, the Faculty made the right choice--to dismiss Douglas, rather than require him to withdraw, as five Faculty Council members had proposed. In the end, the Faculty followed the Administrative Board's recommendation by an extremely lop-sided vote...
Without trivializing the importance of the Douglas vote, if that decision is all that comes out of Tuesday's protest, the rally will not have succeeded. Indeed, it would seem to serve the administration well if the Douglas situation continues to overshadow the other two groups behind the protest, since Harvard's action on the other issues, especially the living wage, has been much less encouraging...
Even the Douglas vote resolved none of the underlying issues his case brought to light. Protestors demanded expulsion, but this option was never before the Faculty. At some point, the Faculty needs to make a policy decision to clarify when expulsion is appropriate. We believe rape deserves the harshest punishment Harvard can impose, expulsion. If, as the administration has argued, dismissal is effectively the same as expulsion, the College needs to clarify this distinction...