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Matory to Duke

By K.C. Johnson

Here?s how Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz reacted to the news that J. Lorand Matory is leaving Cambridge: ?I think it?s the best thing that?s happened to Harvard in a long time. Privately, there?s a real sense of exhilaration and relief that this man is no longer a blot on our community.? As a Harvard graduate (B.A. and Ph.D.), I echo Dershowitz?s sentiments: Matory?s damage to Harvard was incalculable. The African-American Studies professor?s campuswide claim to fame came in his sponsorship of the resolution to censure former president Larry Summers. Summers? sins, according to the resolution that Matory originally penned? (1) The president correctly termed the divest-from-Israel movement ?anti-Semitic in effect if not intent?; (2) The president demanded that then-University professor Cornel West produce scholarship, rather than rap records; (3) The president stated, in widely condemned remarks, that?if only to disprove the point and silence conservative critics?scholars should consider whether cognitive differences between the genders, and not discrimination, might explain the disparity between men and women among the ranks of tenured science faculty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).