CAMBRIDGE – Harvard Law School Dean Martha L. Minow wants a special committee of faculty and students to gather views on whether the school's seal, which features imagery from the family crest of a slaveholder benefactor, should be changed.
Minow announced the panel's members and its purpose in a statement posted to the school's website.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson's views on foreign policy have drawn stinging criticism from the left but a recently released polling analysis appears to vindicate his assertion that Syrian refugees would prefer not to resettle in North America.
Reflecting on a brief weekend jaunt to refugee camps in Jordan, Carson said in multiple television interviews that every Syrian he spoke with preferred to resettle in Syria, if possible. He also said that refugees told him they were satisfied with their present camps, provided the facilities remain properly funded. Separately, the retired pediatric neurosurgeon pointed out that most Syrian refugees – about 1.3 million – in Jordan were settled in communities while just 100,000 were in camps.
