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Crimson articles over the past weeks report an outpouring of criticism of University President Lawrence H. Summers within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Lawyers, perhaps, are constitutionally inclined to see multiple sides of a story where some see only one. Faculty complain that they have been left out of Allston planning, but many have participated in a welter of committees, and on a task of that complexity, a considerable amount of centralized decisionmaking is required. (I do not know if there was more faculty discussion of Allston before Summers’ arrival, but there surely was not much...
...Faculty complain that Summers is intimidating, and there is no doubt that he can be. Complaints that he has silenced people, however, need to be rounded out. He seems not yet to have fully found his way in making the transition from faculty member to President, and, alas, the two are not the same; criticism from the President feels different than criticism from a colleague. But that is different from refusing to tolerate dissent. I’ve crossed swords with him in more than one setting, and while being criticized directly and forcefully by the President can be unnerving...
Across the country in recent months, United We Stand has suffered widespread unhappiness with its founder. Some chapter leaders complain that when Perot disagrees with them, he cuts their funding and installs handpicked operatives. The state chairman from California, Skip House, predicts, "They won't get the people out working that they did in '92. Many are disillusioned...
...proudly displays a clipping from a local newspaper’s “Best Of” contest that rated the bar the worst and strangest establishment in all of Boston. But with Buds for $1.55 on any night of the week, you really can’t complain...
...unable to distinguish Justinian the Great from Julian the Apostate.” Instead, they’re more likely to be familiar with propaganda in Nazi Germany, the role of the samurai in Japanese culture, or the Castro regime in Cuba. Of all the things to criticize, why complain that Harvard is too successful in attempting to expand the cultural and intellectual horizons of its students...