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Those of us who have already left campus are shocked to hear what Summers has done. We must have missed the news of academic sanctions levied against those who supported the visiting poet Tom Paulin. We have not read The Crimson’s repeated exposés of junior faculty denied tenure for their political speech. (Except, perhaps, for Peter Berkowitz.) Including the case of former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, we have not even seen public criticism by the President’s office of any member of the Faculty for political positions...
...Kalven Report, be a home of critics, rather than a critic itself. Perhaps, when a president speaks on politics—even off-the-record, and in a personal capacity—that barrier is crossed. Yet whether the subject is women in science, Afro-American studies, or Paulin, Summers’ comments have been subject to withering criticism from faculty and students alike. What intelligent person could read the papers and conclude that all of Harvard thinks as he does, or that its Faculty feels any pressure to agree? It is possible that Summers’ outspokenness has diminished...
...concerns that he routinely stifles debate and intimidates professors into silence. Faculty members pointed to a series of mishandlings during Summers’ tenure, including the departure of former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 in 2002, the controversy surrounding the invitation of poet Tom Paulin in 2003, and the lack of communication regarding Allston plans...
...English department cancels a poetry reading by poet Tom Paulin after over 100 students and faculty members expressed concerns over Paulin’s anti-Israeli views, but he is reinvited one week later. Paulin ultimately never comes to speak...
...didn’t have any trepidation about choosing [Coetzee]. I don’t have any trepidation about choosing anybody for any reason. That includes Paulin. Artists are artists,” Powell said...