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...evidence that Mr. Lagon adduces to demonstrate left wing hegemony at Harvard is pathetic. Although leftists are alleged to so outnumber moderates and conservatives as to cow them into silence, Mr. Lagon can find but two names to cise. Professor Womack has spoken for himself: Professor Hoffmann, currently out of the country, cannot reply, so we feel obliged in come to his defense. He is charged both with being an "unremitting pacifist" and with leading the Government Department. The first accusation displays a pitiful disregard for the facts. Professor Hoffmann is so far from "unremitting pacifism" that he is willing...
...only conclude that his real interest is in censorship for its own sake--or, rather, in the expectation that he will be one of the censors. Nor does he hesitate to exercise the office of censor before he has ever been nominated, castigating Prof. Womack for "speaking less than objectively." Is such a remark consistent with a call for the free "interplay of ideas"? It seems not, for in order to pronounce this condemnation Mr. Lagon must believe that his own political views are in some sense "objective." But if he thinks he already knows the objective truth, what interest...
...number of respects. Professor Hoffmann is described as an unremitting pacifist despite the clear statement in his book Duties Beyond Borders that "while I am not a pacifist...I have a strong belief that no war is very often better than war." In his letter of 8 March Prof. Womack has already rebutted the "false accusations" that he organised the Grenada demonstration, but it appears that Mr. Lagon considers even speaking at such a meeting to be inconsistent with a faculty position. At a gathering outside of his normal academic responsibilities John Womack surely has a right to criticise President...
...author or authors of the flyer state, "Mr. Womack organized and led a student demonstration against American intervention in Grenada... Grenada... "I did not I think that it is conduct unbecoming to a member of the faculty to organize and lead student demonstrations, and I have never done such a thing. I do not know who organized the demonstration against the U.S. invasion of Granada. I was invited by students from the Law School to be one of the speakers at the demonstration, and I did speak. That...
...Harvard Republican Club" intends to make more statements about the "monopoly" its members see, it should avoid false accusations about persons. John Womack...