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...review of video footage from the event revealed several inconsistencies in the police report filed after their arrest, including an incorrect order of events and misquotations of the comments the students yelled. According to the students, they were also not given a warning before they were removed from the forum, which would represent a breach of free speech guidelines approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Others are not so quick to dismiss. Says John Green, Senior Fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public LIfe, "There isn't a well-developed theology, a set of propositions. He appears to have traveled a lot in Latin America, but my colleagues say he doesn't have much of an international following. But really, we have no way of knowing whether or not it may ultimately spread beyond this." Thomas Tweed, Chair of the religion department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an expert in Miami's religious history, doubts, as do several other scholars...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict during a talk at the Institute of Politics yesterday evening, saying that “if it’s not resolved soon, we might not have a chance in the future.” Speaking before a capacity crowd in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, the queen—who is of Palestinian and Jordanian decent—described the conflict in the Middle East as not simply “an abstraction,” as it is often perceived in the Western world, “but a difficult and daily reality...
Every Tuesday afternoon, 35 of the College’s top administrators and faculty gather in Lamont Forum Room to deliberate the fates of undergraduates whose lives behind Harvard’s ivy gates lie in the balance. With a red and yellow “Meeting In Progress. Please Do Not Disturb” sign hanging from the door, the room houses the Administrative Board—the committee charged with enforcing undergraduate academic regulations and standards of social conduct...
Given the importance of dissent in an academic community, the arrest of a student protestor remains a significant event. For that reason, the Harvard University Police Department has carefully reviewed the situation at the Forum. The University is persuaded that more could have been done in the circumstances to apprise the students that they were in jeopardy of arrest. Without condoning the students’ behavior at the Forum, broader principles have led the University to request that the criminal charges against the students be dropped...