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...about 500 professors—many faculty continued their attacks on Summers’ leadership of the University, criticizing the lack of trust they say he has fostered between himself and faculty. However, supporters of Summers also spoke at today’s meeting, which lacked the tension and anger that marked last Tuesday’s discussion...
...Certainly many have been critical of specific statements he has made, but I have never heard a Graduate School of Design (GSD) faculty member express anger at President Summers...or indicate a feeling that [he] sought to govern by fear or intimidation,” Dean of the Faculty of Design Alan A. Altshuler wrote in an e-mail...
...Tuesday’s Faculty meeting, professors presented a laundry list of petty slights, minor insults, and distant misdeeds that now add up to a perfect storm for Harvard’s president. The Faculty has stored up a cornucopia of complaints, each too small to warrant widespread anger on its own. But when great minds get together, they connect dots...
This is not enough to prove that Summers’ sometimes unpleasant demeanor does not 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?...
Professors’ anger over Summers’ remarks—voiced throughout the month via critical internal letters and op-ed pieces in national newspapers—erupted Tuesday, as Faculty hoped to redress long-standing grievances by honing in on the current situation...