"I find these numbers anguishing. Anguishing for the individuals whose lives have been devastated, anguishing for all of us who want to believe that this is a community defined by our care and respect for one another"
University President Drew G. Faust,at a town hall following the release of results of a campus sexual conduct climate survey
"I want to really applaud and give my encouragement to the Spee to continue to be a model of leadership"
Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana,on the Spee's move to invite women to participate in its annual member selection process
"I wouldn't do this if I did not seriously intend to become president"
Larry Lessig,Harvard Law School professor and brief Democratic presidential candidate
"We're not doing enough to build a strong enough environment to make sure the women in this case feel they have the best long term support for their careers"
Michael D. Smith,Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences
"Harvard Has Forced Our Hand"
Fox Club undergraduate leaders,in a letter to club graduates explaining their decision to go co-ed
"Racism exists in America and in the United States and in Harvard and in Harvard Law School"
Martha L. Minow,Dean of Harvard Law School
"I don't think that's the place of any Harvard employee to tell students the right way to think about the Syrian refugee crisis. That's ridiculous to me"
Aaron I. Henricks '16,on the College's dissemination of controversial placemats
"As someone who is responsible for and co-leads one of the Houses…. I have not felt comfortable personally with the title [of House master]."
Rakesh Khurana,Dean of the College
"Overall, students sense that house life depends on the particular housemasters and established house traditions, which invariably leads to inconsistency across the College"
37-page report,from the College's diversity and inclusion working group
"My teammates were finding me and honestly, I don't fear anyone, I want to play the game and I think they should fear me"
Zena K. Edosomwan '17 ,Men's basketball forward
"We share the concern that introducing labor unions into this educational relationship would disrupt academic programs, administration of financial assistance, and infringe upon academic freedom"
Michael D. Smith and Xiao-Li Meng,Respective Deans of Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
"We're all going to be facing these questions, and the case that I would make is...about the importance of sustaining our history, not erasing it"
Drew Faust,University President
"There are better ways to engage the past and its legacy in the present than by retaining a symbol that so many members of the community reject"
Report,from the committee tasked with re-considering Harvard Law School's seal
"We also heard reports of deeply misogynistic attitudes, reflected by the long-standing refusal of many [Final] Clubs to admit women as members"
Final Report,Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Assault
"I was looking forward to having some berries, but there was nothing for me"
Katie C. Berry '19,Student
"A lot of these people I financially support are those on the ideological fringe, and many of them say all sorts of outrageous things I don't necessarily agree with."
Ron K. Unz '83,outsider candidate for Harvard's Board of Overseers who donated to an organization he described as "quasi-white nationalist"
"It's a show of weakness, I would say. It was a premature, preemptive surrender to a student demand, which didn't really come"
Harvey C. Mansfield '53,Government Professor, on the changing of the House master title
"All of these unrecognized single-gender social organizations are at odds with Harvard College's educational philosophy and its commitment to a diverse living and learning experience"
Rakesh Khurana,on the announcement of historic sanctions to the College's final clubs, fraternities, and sororities
"I have told all of my friends in the Porcellian Club that I would prefer to just give Harvard the finger. It's easy; it's fun; it doesn't cost anything"
James M. Myers '77,graduate member of the Porcellian Club