News

Harvard Quietly Resolves Anti-Palestinian Discrimination Complaint With Ed. Department

News

Following Dining Hall Crowds, Harvard College Won’t Say Whether It Tracked Wintersession Move-Ins

News

Harvard Outsources Program to Identify Descendants of Those Enslaved by University Affiliates, Lays Off Internal Staff

News

Harvard Medical School Cancels Class Session With Gazan Patients, Calling It One-Sided

News

Garber Privately Tells Faculty That Harvard Must Rethink Messaging After GOP Victory

A Time To Explore

Letters to the Editors

By Emily Carmichael

To the editors:

The reason Harvard does not require courses on Shakespeare or the Constitution is because most of us learned about them in high school (Op-ed, “Bring Back the Dead White Men,” Nov. 6). College is a place to delve deeply into one’s chosen field; for example, in visual and environmental studies we learn that the “African Art” you mention crucially influenced Pablo Picasso, a dead white man. (Or do Spanish men not count?)

In addition, this would seem to be the worst possible time in American history to contend that ideas of “Islam and nationalism in the Middle East” are not “important” or “have no impact.” Is it not important understand other countries before we’re at war with them?

Emily J. Carmichael ’04

Nov. 6, 2003

Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.

Tags