By defending celebrities in highly publicized cases, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has used the courtroom to make powerful political statements. And he has made just as significant political assertions with his checkbook as well.
Harvard administrators and professors constantly balance their University responsibilities for teaching and research with their personal lives.
But because the nationally prominent and politically inclined Harvard faculty often find it difficult to ignore the national elections, they find ways to support their candidates in spite of their academic commitments. Demands of Country and University
University President Neil L. Rudenstine says that the University hopes that professors and administrators' duty to the school would not conflict with their participation in the country's politics.
"One thing we have always said and believed is that nothing that individual professors do with their work should [conflict] in any way with being full citizens of the United States."
But Rudenstine also says that professors and administrators have to watch their time commitments to both the University and to their political involvement.
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