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...spoke in the voices of three characters in front of a wet crowd crouched under umbrellas in Tercentenary Theatre yesterday. Event organizers estimated that between a few hundred and 1000 people attended the speech, while others watched on screens in Science Center lecture halls and classrooms in order to avoid the rain that poured down on the audience for most of the ceremony...
...write on page 9, "Today's worship of physical perfection is more grotesque than Hitler's notion of the Aryan." But then on page 130, you joke that "The only sort of authority Cindy Sheehan has is the uncanny ability to demonstrate, by example, what body types should avoid wearing shorts in public." So which is it: are we allowed to joke about physical imperfections or is it grotesque...
...Summers’ ouster. “The resignation of Dr. Summers indicates to me that Harvard has become a place where vigorous debate, examination of unpopular ideas, and critical thinking are less valued than political correctness, where courageous leadership is not to be preferred over extreme caution to avoid offending anyone,” he wrote. “So be it. Henceforth, when the alumni fund solicitors call, I shall not donate so much as a penny to this shallow institution.”Lewis M. Schneider ’56 wrote to his classmates on an online...
Mehta said that the administration did not suggest that the committee avoid choosing certain speakers...
Last June, class marshal Caleb I. Franklin ’05 told The Crimson that the Harvard administration advised the Senior Class Committee to avoid selecting speakers who might offend older Class Day attendees. Some speculated that the choice of NBC news anchor Tim Russert for last year’s Class Day speaker may have been a reaction to the choice of Cohen the year before. Every Class Day speaker beginning in 2002 had been a comedian before Russert was selected...