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...English department cancels a poetry reading by poet Tom Paulin after over a 100 students and faculty members expressed concerns over Paulin’s anti-Israeli views, but he is reinvited one week later. Chair of the Department of English Lawrence Buell said at the time that there was “widespread concern and regret for the fact that the decision not to hold the event could easily be seen . . . as an unjustified breach of the principle of free speech within the academy...
...Paulin is a world-renowned poet...
...when the Department of English invited Paulin to give the annual Morris Gray lecture this March, many within the University objected to the idea of offering the poet the honor of speaking at Harvard...
...Paulin incited heated debate across campus, but the incident was only one of several major episodes this year in which the right to free speech was tested...
When the Department of English invited Paulin to give the Morris Gray Lecture, they never imagined that a honorary lecture would snowball into a campus-wide protest...