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...Summers’ supporters—most notably Wisse and law professor Alan M. Dershowitz—have claimed that the divestment petition was an important factor fueling the Faculty??s anger with its president...
...minutes of research could have told him that the American history faculty, almost all of whom have been at Harvard less than 10 years, routinely win awards both for undergraduate teaching and for mentoring of graduate students. They hardly fit the stereotype of the “paleo-faculty?? who supposedly resisted President Summers invocations to shapeup...
Does that look like the picture you see from your dorm window? Probably not, but Wisse believes that these characteristics of the “new generation” of Harvard students prompted the student body to reject the Faculty??s recent coup and support University President Lawrence H. Summers. Unfortunately, Wisse’s simple explanation does not withstand scrutiny; not only is she out of touch with students one third her age—a day of Core classes and a night at a final club would refute both of her claims?...
...THIS IS DONE’ Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk show host, said last Thursday that Summers was brought down by “a bunch of angry feminazis.” So, for the record, was the issue of political correctness at play in the Faculty??s outrage last month? “I’m so sick of hearing that charge,” Ryan said. “I believe firmly that anybody should be allowed to say what they want to say.” And Kay K. Shelemay, the Watts professor...
...negatively affect the majority of people 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?...