Government professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. â53 is widely known on campus as the default example of a conservative faculty member at Harvard.
According to Mansfield, this is not because his views possess any sort of âsuperiorityâ to othersâ perspectives, but simply because a professor with his political stance is ârareâ on Harvardâs campus.
âEvery class you enter, you have to work out your position vis-Ã -vis what the professor is saying,â Mansfield said. âBecause a professor is going to be a liberal, and heâs not going to be bashful about it.â
âThere are many more conservatives among the students than there are among either the faculty or the administration,â he said, adding that those students tend to seek him out as one of the few vocal conservative voices in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
More than 600 Harvard affiliates signed an open letter asking University President Lawrence S. Bacow to designate federal Election Days as instruction-free âDemocracy Daysâ that would offer a holiday to employees and students and provide civic engagement programming.
The letter, which has been signed by more than 400 current students and nearly 150 faculty and staff members, comes after petitions in the fall unsuccessfully lobbied Bacow to designate Election Day as a University holiday.
Nearly 50 campus organizations and more than 60 alumni â including former Board of Overseers President Michael H. Brown â83 and former Institute of Politics Director C. M. Trey Grayson â94 â also signed onto the letter.
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In 1983, then-assistant Government professor Terry L. Karl accused fellow Government professor Jorge I. DomÃnguez of sexually harassing her.
On Thursday â nearly four decades later â University President Lawrence S. Bacow apologized to Karl in a letter accompanying the final report by an external committee tasked with determining what had allowed DomÃnguez to climb Harvardâs ranks despite multiple allegations of harassment over several decades.
âHarvard failed her,â Bacow wrote.
âI also apologize to those whose subsequent sexual harassment might have been avoided if Harvard had taken timely and appropriate actions,â he added.
Following the reportâs publication and Bacowâs letter Thursday, Karl and another woman whom DomÃnguez harassed, Charna E. Sherman â80, told The Crimson they were pleased Bacow apologized, but felt deeper systematic changes are still needed at Harvard to protect women from harassment in the future.