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...deserves part of the blame for allowing his political comments to overshadow his academic commitments. But the Faculty will deserve even more if it wastes its energies in the same way. What Summers thinks about statistical variations in scientific ability is not as important as what he thinks about Allston or curricular reform, and these issues are lost amid the rancor. According to Wednesday’s Crimson, the two main docket items at Tuesday’s Faculty meeting—the progress of the Curricular Review, and a letter from the Dean of the Faculty setting out controversial...
...most frustrating part this wrangling, however, is that it won’t help tenure more female faculty, guide the lost Curricular Review, or make Allston a well-planned center of undergraduate life. Plus Harvard’s name will be in the news again, and the coverage is not going to be positive. None of it will serve my college well...
...similar concerns about planning for Harvard’s expansion into Allston, a series of small blunders alienated one section of the Faculty at a time—first the highly visible African American Studies Department after the departure of Cornel R. West ’74, then humanities professors as he pushed for increased and improved hard science education at the College, now female professors. Add to that a national media storm over innate differences, which gives the Faculty added leverage, and you get an emergency Faculty meeting next Tuesday at which he might lose a vote...
...leadership are often more about perception than about facts. Summers is perceived to be anti-humanities when he might simply be pro-hard science. He is perceived to be tight-lipped when, sometimes, there might not be much to say—as in the case of Allston expansion, which, even now, is in its very early stages and subject to excruciating amounts of criticism for the number of actual decisions that have been made. He is perceived to be arrogant when he might simply be on the trail of a good argument. It’s that problem with...
...belie equally unpleasant policies and methods. My point is that the Faculty simply lacks a sufficient body of hard evidence to back up its many perceptions. The most reasonable source of Faculty anger with Summers is the diversion of funds from Faculty and other budgets to pay for Allston expansion—which will only benefit professors in certain fields, such as the sciences, that will get new facilities across the River. But this, along with minor instances of objectionable behavior, wouldn’t convince me to slap Harvard’s president with a vote of no confidence...