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Drew Gilpin Faust was unanimously confirmed as Harvard's first woman president this afternoon by the alumni Board of Overseers...
...university must be able to “listen charismatically.” This does not mean that the president must always say yes, nor is she precluded from taking strong and even controversial stands. But she must maintain the support of her major constituencies—faculty, students, alumni, governing boards—and this challenge requires confidence, patience, humility, and wisdom...
...Board of Overseers, the alumni governing body that must approve the appointment, has scheduled a special meeting for Sunday, two sources said. The meeting had not been on the board’s regular schedule...
...John L. Ashbery ’49, and Adrienne Rich ’51, being a poet at Harvard—or even a student of poetry—can be a daunting task. Yet, instead of being frightened, many Harvard poets today look to their alumni as a source of motivation. “I think [literary critic] Harold Bloom is responsible for this idea in literary criticism that writers are involved in a Oedipal struggle with their predecessors,” says Vasiliauskas. “I don’t think this is the case for myself...
...Deval Patrick, I would say almost half of them had not been involved with the Dems before, or involved in politics on campus at all.” But while Patrick graduated from Harvard, his supporters say his popularity on campus had much more to do with politics than alumni relations. “I don’t think it has anything to do with the fact he’s from Harvard, but rather with the fact he aligns with the political ideologies of people on campus,” says Daniel J. Sachs...