Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Dershowitz Through the Ages.

There has recently been a controversy on campus regarding allegations of plagiarism in Alan Dershowitz's book The Case for Israel. If you are interested in that story there is fairly extensive coverage on Norman Finkelstein's website. Finkelstein is known for exposing that the book From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters in 1980s was largely a hoax. Readers can look at the evidence and make up their own minds about that controversy.

However, in this entry I'd rather focus on another controversy involving Alan Dershowitz, that Noam Chomsky made reference to during his talk last week that HIPJ co-sponsored. This has to do with a series of letters that were sent to the Boston Globe in 1973 where Dershowitz made allegations about the Israeli civil rights leader Israel Shahak which Noam Chomsky responded to. Please forgive (and comment on) any typos, I am retyping this from a hard copy. Again, readers can make up their own minds.

Click here to see the text from 1973 letters in The Boston Globe.

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Monday, December 15, 2003

Layoffs and Wage Structure at Harvard

A project that HIPJ members have been concerning themselves with is the No Layoffs campaign here at Harvard. This article in the Crimson on friday sheds some interesting light on the way Harvard has opted to allocate its resources.

Last year, the University�s two best-paid money managers took home $17.5 million and $17.4 million, enough�according to Boston Magazine�to make them the Boston area�s second and third highest-compensated employees, and enough�according to the Chronicle of Higher Education�to make them the highest-paid in academia. And those salaries will jump even higher this year, according to Jack Meyer, president of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), the University�s in-house endowment manager.

Contrast this with an excerpt from emails going out about the No Layoffs campaign:

There will be a wave of layoffs in Harvard College Libraries announced in January - this translates into big cuts in library services to you, the students of Harvard, not to mention completely unjustifiable losses of library workers jobs and livelihoods, in order that misers can hoard a $19.3 billion endowment.

It is often difficult to know when it is appropriate to criticize a series of layoffs in a particular organization when you don't know all the details, but this set of circumstances can't help but raise eyebrows.

Click on this link to see the rest of the post and the full text of the email for the No Layoffs Campaign.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 Dershowitz Through the Ages.

Monday, December 15, 2003 Layoffs and Wage Structure at Harvard

Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Dershowitz Through the Ages.

Monday, December 15, 2003

Layoffs and Wage Structure at Harvard