Based on precedents ranging from Harvard’s treatment of Native Americans to the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Mrs. Ginger proposes that Harvard undertake its own “truth and reconciliation” program to discuss its actions during the McCarthy period.
“I am in a campaign to cause Harvard to face up to the facts of its past and to issue a strong condemnation of its actions/inactions in the Cold War period, and to make and publicize a firm written commitment that it will in the future obey the fundamental tenets of academic freedom for the good of Harvard, and for their own sake,” she writes.
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In sum, she writes she found the “‘response’ basically nonresponsive.”
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