HAHAHA the W. E. B. Du Bois chair and Dean of social sciences wants you to know that faculty should be punished for encouraging students to protest
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
Given the intro, I kept waiting to at least hear "and that's why we can't take donations from people who seek to harm our great institution!" Silly me.
When in the hell did university presidents decide that alumni are "external actors"? MPOW made this distinction in their policy and as someone who is regularly tagged in to help hire them up for $$, and as someone whose family has a multi-generational connection with my alma mater...wtf.
Is the chair named for a different W. E. B. Du Bois? Not the one who blasted Fisk for capitulating (in a commencement address, no less), harshly criticized students for not being activists, and quit disinterested scholarship after the lynching of Sam Hose? Must be a different one.
I have a lot of examples of impeding the university 's function during recent protests and none of the people doing the impeding were protesters. Admin and campus safety who repeatedly and without warning locked library and custodial employees out of the building during protests, however.
I still can't believe the approach was "I'm going to make a metaphor that basically means we are the Birmingham in 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' to our students"
He compared advocating rule-breaking with yelling "Fire!" in a theater. Wild. I guess there's a reason he didn't discuss the difference between just and unjust rules.
Fire in a crowded building. Yes to criticize Harvard is the equivalent of causing a mob stampede that kills dozens. I mean it’s Harvard. Not just some silly city hall or something.
What books has the W.E.B. Du Bois Chair and Dean of Social Sciences at Harvard written? Wrong answers only. I’ll start:
Reconstruction is Unnecessary in America
