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...while most professors who took the floor yesterday were long-time opponents of Summers, their remarks were most notable for the widespread, often thunderous applause which repeatedly erupted from the packed crowd of professors...
Over 250 faculty members crowded University Hall for the meeting, many of them forced to sit on the floor and stand under doorways as the debate quickly developed into a one-sided assault on Summers, who sat subdued throughout the ordeal...
While many of Summers’ most outspoken critics led today’s charge, they were cheered on by large sections of the approximately 250 professors in attendance. Monthly faculty meetings typically draw less than half that number, but at this meeting, professors found themselves sitting on the floor, standing in doorways, and spilling out into the halls to watch the anticipated showdown with Summers...
...Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., and Rep. George Miller, D-Cal., have introduced a new bill on the floor of Congress, the Employee Free Choice Act, which would go a long way towards enforcing workers’ rights under the law. The bill deserves the support of anyone committed to the ideal of a society that works to protect everyone’s freedom, not just those who can afford to buy its protection...
...rather say I saw Phineas Gage’s skull or a castle this weekend than that I woke up in a pool of my own vomit on someone’s floor,” he says. “There’s also an interesting thing about traveling and going to somewhere...