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...will probably not be known for another few weeks whether or when the visit to Harvard by Mr. Paulin will take place,” English department chair Lawrence Buell posted on the department’s website on Nov. 21. “A news update will be posted on the English Department website when that information is known...
...refereeing in the Harvard women’s hockey team’s 2-1 victory over Dartmouth was as inconsistent as the English department’s treatment of Tom Paulin. Seventeen penalties were called that Friday. Five were for body-checking. The NCAA officials could make the ref’s jobs a whole lot easier with one simple rule change: allow body-checking...
...other event that brought scrutiny to the Summers-New pairing was the Paulin case. According to several professors in the English department, New learned about Paulin’s remarks to Al-Ahram at an economics department cocktail party she attended with Summers (a former professor in the department) and contacted her colleagues to inform them of the poet’s political past. “[Summers and New] were involved from the start,” says Watson, “and there was confusion between alerting and intervening...
...still colored the discourse. “Some people were nervous about all this,” says Kiely, “nervous that she might tell him what goes on in our meetings.” At the full department meeting called to decide what to do about Paulin, according to a senior professor who was present, the suspicion boiled over. Reid Professor of English Philip J. Fisher asked her whether Summers, who had officially told the department it should do as it wished, had anything to do with her opposition. “If there was an uncomfortable...
According to Vendler, who was the department’s liaison to Paulin, professors are slowly doing exactly that—getting used to it. “It’s a nine days’ wonder,” she says. “Everyone says, ‘Oh, what do you know?’ and then forgets about it. It’s an awkward situation, as she herself has admitted, but you muddle along...