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...tenure recommendation for Marcyliena Morgan, a scholar of hip-hop in the African and African-American studies department, prompting her to leave for Stanford. Some Harvard women are worried that Summers' comments will make recruitment of top female faculty even tougher. Candidates for teaching, says physics professor Melissa Franklin, "do consider the feeling among other female faculty at the university...
...Franklin was nonplussed. “If he wants to think I’m a stupid person, that’s fine,” she said of Limbaugh. “I think it’s hilarious...
...self-described friend of Franklin noted on a weblog Wednesday, the Harvard particle physicist is not quite a lexicographic trailblazer. In October 2003, after Limbaugh—formerly an ESPN commentator—drew fire for racially insensitive remarks about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, a Limbaugh fan on a conservative website wrote: “even if Rush was just wrong in what he said, why does this rise to a resignable gaff...
...Melissa E.B. Franklin, one of Summers’ most vehement critics this week, who is not a member of the committee, called Summers’ letter “a great step forward...
...There are probably quite a few members of the Harvard faculty who actually believe that there is an innate difference between girls and boys in science skill,” said Franklin, the Mallinckrodt professor of physics. “Now that this is brought up, maybe all the ensuing discussion will be able to convince those people otherwise...