Word: fm
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...FM: With all this seriousness, it seems like Harvard could use a good laugh. Do you have a favorite joke you’d like to tell? JR: Oh no, I don’t have a joke. I just give humorous lectures...
...FM: Are you normally a confrontational person? JR: I’m a cheeky person. And I’m an old debater...
...FM: You were on leave last semester. Do you feel qualified to be leading the charge after being absent during such a critical period? JR: That’s a good question, but I was on e-mail and I received most of the e-mails that were going back and forth. I read the minutes from Faculty meetings and individuals were also e-mailing me, so I had a sense of what was going...
...FM: You, Professor Matory and President Summers—a woman, an African-American, and a Jew, respectively—have been the most prominent combatants so far. Do you see any significance in the fact that this conflict has centered on individuals who not so long ago would not have held positions of power at Harvard? JR: I’m glad you framed it that way, rather than suggesting that women and African-Americans are in an adversarial position toward Jews, because that wouldn’t be right. It might very well be that people...
...FM: Are your students afraid you will issue no confidence votes against them? JR: I would hate it if that were to be the case, and I sincerely hope that it really would not be. I try to keep university politics out of the classroom...