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...University has categorically rejected this suggestion.” His suggestion that divestment from Israel would be “anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intent” made waves scarcely a year into his presidency. His opponents claimed that Summers’ veiled accusation stifled dissent, but for supporters, it was a vote of confidence.“I think it was a stunning example of a leader taking a brilliant position in a way that I have not seen done before or since,” Zarchi says. “It was a historical speech...
...applying.”And a senior Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md., Alex Imas, who did not apply to Harvard, said, “I think more highly of Harvard now than I did a year ago.” The Faculty’s expression of dissent “tells me that there’s no company line they have to follow there,” he said.Imas added that “controversy is a good thing. Controversy forces issues to the forefront, and if there’s anything wrong with Harvard, this...
...attest that the Faculty is in no way a festering cauldron of left-wing lunatics. Overall, its members are a diverse and impressive group of hard-working scholars, variously committed to teaching and public life, open-minded and broadly tolerant, but generally quite slow to voice their dissent on most matters. In other words, they are politically liberal but temperamentally quite moderate. Much like the undergraduates they teach, they are more interested in professional success than in social justice. They hardly constitute a threat to Harvard or to civilization...
...front doors of University Hall were locked on Friday in response to the planned protest—a common response when administrators feel that there is any “potential for dissent,” Gross said...
...Summers 3-to-1. Unfortunately for Summers, though, the tally for the no-confidence vote at next week’s Faculty meeting was quite likely to reveal just the opposite proportion.From last January, when Summers’ comments about “intrinsic aptitude” catalyzed Faculty dissent, up to now, our president lost the support of many of his high profile backers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He did so not necessarily because his ideas were flawed, but because of how he expressed them. In forming opinions, Summers favored data over politics, basing his judgments...