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Certainly, the University should not shy away from sponsoring forums on controversial subjects; to do that would be to abandon its duty to encourage the pursuit of knowledge and truth. As an opinion piece in yesterday's Crimson asserted, "Harvard's role isn't to make people comfortable; it's to foster critical thinking and dialogue...
...policy unlikely to accomplish that. It's akin to having a board of Christian fundamentalists discuss the legality of abortion, or having Zairean leader Sese Seko Mobutu speak about peace in Africa, for that matter. Although all views should be heard, treating such a forum as an academic pursuit would make a mockery of the term. To lend Harvard's credibility to a conference so imbalanced in its approach, so determined to push a particular point of view rather than to give all the facts, is indeed inappropriate. Rather than "foster critical thinking and dialogue," the conference would have obscured...
...scholar, Claudia D. Goldin, said in an interview last night that she would probably accept the offer from the Economics Department--if the terms of the contract are favorable...
...obviously very difficult, particularly in my field, to turn an offer from Harvard down," said Goldin. "Harvard would be a perfect place for me. Cambridge would be a very good place...
...Goldin would also bolster the department's offerings in economic history, professors said...