Word: discontentment
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While Tuesday’s outpouring of faculty discontent threatened to destabilize University President Lawrence H. Summers’ administration, those conferred with the only official power to remove Summers from office remained tight-lipped and far from campus yesterday.
“It’s not simply a matter of that one comment or this particular issue,” Gordon said yesterday, in reference to Summers’ Jan. 14 speech. “There’s widespread discontent at multiple levels...catalyzed by this one...
But another faculty member said the NBER speech presented an opportunity to realize the extent of Faculty discontent with Summers, rather than an excuse to take on the president.
Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, in an impassioned speech at yesterday’s meeting, criticized the Corporation for its lack of awareness of Faculty discontent.
“To the overseers, I would say, where are you when we need you?” Mendelsohn said rhetorically, singling out Corporation member Robert E. Rubin ’60. Rubin told the New York Times in January that Summers was an “oustanding president...