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OPINION: Howard University Must Not Close Its Classics Department

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Times opinion piece by Howard philosophy professors partially blamed the closure on a lack of student interest. Yet students do care deeply about the department. In fact, we, along with supportive Howard faculty members, are the ones trying to save it.
It took a matter of hours for me to mobilize more than 70 students in a GroupMe chat to create a letter writing campaign to the university Provost and another day for dozens of Alumni to pledge their time and support. Within a few days we received more than 6,000 signatures and endorsements from around the world for our group letter to the Provost. ....

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The Classics Survived University Witch Hunts Before, And Will Do It Again

The Classics Survived University Witch Hunts Before, And Will Do It Again
February 16, 2021
How do you eradicate a heritage? Princeton’s Classics Department is working hard at it, with The New York Times celebrating its efforts. It is hardly the first attempt at “canceling” the cradle of Western Civilization. The war on classics has a medieval pedigree; it is a sad irony that elite academics have joined forces.
Palimpsests reveal tangible evidence of how “deplatforming” was done in the Middle Ages. These are manuscripts, typically parchment, from which the original text has been sufficiently scraped, so the parchment could be recycled. In the Dark Ages, that meant erasing the pagan decadence of Greece and Rome to privilege Holy Writ and the writings of church fathers. ....

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