As an update to yesterday’s post on opposition at Harvard to honoring New Republic owner-editor Martin Peretz, who has made bigoted comments about Muslims, blacks, and Latinos…

The Harvard Crimson reports this morning that Peretz’s name has been taken off the speaker’s list for this Saturday’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies gala. The director of the program now says that Peretz “will be recognized in some fashion at the celebration,” but declined to say whether he will speak.

The committee was supposed to release a statement on the controversy yesterday, but did not.