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With a University as vast and decentralized as our own, it is especially important that our president be acutely attuned to the complex needs of a diverse constituency—something outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers seems to have failed to do. This is particularly important to graduate students who, like professors, are intensely focused on a specific field of study and want a president who is sympathetic to their niche. An ideal candidate to replace Summers would possess the professional tact and sensitivity required to bridge disciplinary boundaries rather than exacerbate divisions by playing favorites with certain departments...
...night that they were dissatisfied with Harvard’s new offer. The University announced this week that it wants to swap five acres of land at the Harvard-owned Brighton Mills Shopping Center and provide “resources” to construct a new low-income apartment complex there in exchange for the site of the Charlesview Apartments—now located at the center of the University’s holdings across the river. According to Harvard’s director of community relations, Kevin McCluskey ’76, the meeting was organized to reach...
...future site and architect of the first building for its new campus in Allston. Harvard representatives said yesterday they would swap five acres of land at the University-owned Brighton Mills Shopping Center and provide “resources” to construct a new low-income apartment complex there in exchange for the site of the Charlesview Apartments—now located at the center of the University’s holdings across the River. Preliminary designs for the University’s Allston campus hinge upon the acquisition of the plot occupied by the apartments, which is frequently...
...transfer control of some U.S. seaports to a Dubai-based company, a plan to put Harvard in control of the Persian Gulf emirate’s largest medical research facility is moving full steam ahead. Construction began Monday on a state-of-the-art, 350,000-square-foot medical complex that will be the center of a collaboration between the Dubai government and Harvard Medical International (HMI), a Harvard Medical School (HMS) program which provides countries with advice on developing healthcare. Dr. Robert K. Crone, HMI’s president and CEO, said yesterday that Monday’s ceremonial...
...those of us who earn our bread at Harvard—in other words, those of us who are in a position to distinguish between the reality of this complex situation and the knee-jerk hysteria that surrounds it—it is hard to interpret the post-resignation public defenses of Summers as anything but angry, reactionary pessimism. Indeed, we should remember that “political correctness” was a concept invented by conservatives to malign progressive attempts to democratize and diversify the academy and to make higher education more hospitable to a broader range of people...