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...message was clearly an attempt at intimidation—only a day before, the administration had announced its “interpretation?? that students occupying buildings would be subject to suspension. Intimidating e-mails to students are hardly the best way to begin a new, more cordial relationship with PSLM now that the janitors’ contract has finally been settled...
Last week, University President Lawrence H. Summers created a bit of a stir by announcing the addition of an “interpretation?? to the University-wide Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. The new language appended to the end of the 30-year-old policy made crystal clear what should already have been obvious to everybody: occupying a University building is against Harvard’s rules...
Although his “interpretation?? of the policy as it applies to sit-ins is redundant, there are some benefits to raising the issue again anyway, however obvious it ought to be. In the aftermath of the spring sit-in, with the statement gathering dust instead of being actively considered, it was anyone’s guess how participants in another such occupation would be penalized under a new president. College, law school and Kennedy School of Government students received different punishments this spring, with the latter set of students getting off the hook entirely...
...announcement comes both as an official “interpretation?? of the University’s policy on acceptable forms of protest and as a statement from University President Lawrence H. Summers and deans of all Harvard’s 11 schools...
...even deeper fact of sarcasm is that it gives the reader some measure of interest and opens writing up to interpretation??a side effect unknown to funereal earnestness. Whether the readers laugh, nod or wring out angry letters to the editor, they have learned something about themselves. One might argue that journalism should be unbending and obvious, that we don’t read The New York Times to learn about ourselves. Perhaps sarcasm is strictly the province of novelists and playwrights. But might we include columnists under the sarcasm umbrella? My own published sarcasm gives...