Update directly from the Harvard U Website
http://www.extension.harvard.edu/hub/news/official-response-cultural-studies-event
And, from that web site link ...
“Students at Harvard Extension School, like students at colleges across the nation, organize and operate a number of independent student organizations, representing a wide range of student interests.
Harvard Extension School does not endorse the views or activities of any independent student organization. But we do support the rights of our students and faculty to speak and assemble freely.
In this case, we understand that this independent student organization, the Cultural Studies Club, is hosting a series of events—including a Shinto tea ceremony, a Shaker exhibition, and a Buddhist presentation on meditation—as part of a student-led effort to explore different cultures.”
OK.
Now, can we see if the Shinto “re-enactment” condemns the Japanese culture by white face and makeup, ridicules their ceremony, flushes the rice paper or burns their scroll and pisses in the teapot?
Does Harvard approve flushing the Koran or spitting on the meteorite stuck in a white column in Mecca; does it approve of piling camel dung on the cartoon image of Mohamed?
Is there nowhere Equity and Diversity Training will not take us? To plumb the very depths of hell it seems! Well I hope something appears and scares them all to church!