NEW COVER STORY: Exclusive: How Harvard caved to student protesters and fired its first black faculty dean
In an exclusive Newsweek interview, Ron Sullivan described how Harvard"capitulated" to a small group of student protesters.Last month, Harvard College told Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., and his wife that it would not renew their contracts as faculty deans of Winthrop House, one of the school's 12 residential communities. They had held their positions for ten years. When appointed, they were the first African-Americans to be named faculty deans at Harvard.
"I certainly cannot dispute how some people feel," he says."But I strongly believe that it's ... the job of the educator is to help students determine whether their feelings are rational... I would argue that a good educator would explore those feelings and help educate the student in a way where the student can exist in a diverse, heterogeneous environment."
SULLIVAN: A colleague at the law school emailed me and asked whether I'd have any moral objection to representing Harvey Weinstein. When I got the email I actually thought this was an ethics question—something she was posing to her class. I wrote back: Of course not. Every citizen has a right to a defense no matter how heinous the crime is or how unpopular the client. And then a few minutes later she wrote back and said,"He'd like to talk to you.
Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein arrives at State Supreme Court in Manhattan with his new team of lawyers Jose Baez and Ronald Sullivan , in New York, on January 25. On May 13, Sullivan withdrew from representing Weinstein at trial, citing unresolvable conflicts with his teaching schedule at Harvard College.I represented the family of Usaamah Rahim. He was an alleged terrorist who was shot by Boston police and the FBI as they were attempting to execute an arrest warrant.
Yes. In theory, I am sure, we could come to a scenario where I would say, no, I would not represent this person. But I do not have categories of individuals that I say I would refuse to represent.
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