Word: genderism
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...academic work that has elicited F-word attacks. At the Radcliffe Institute, MacDonald says, “Faust runs one of the most powerful incubators of feminist complaint…in the country.” But in fact, Faust has steered Radcliffe away from an exclusive focus on gender studies. The number of men in the institute’s Fellows program has increased more than six-fold since 2000, the year Faust arrived. And the program now includes natural scientists and engineers who are conducting cutting-edge research that has nothing to do with “feminist...
...short, Faust is a visionary administrator who has steered the units under her command away from exclusively gender-related endeavors. And she is an incisive historian who has dismantled many of the very myths that feminists had previously embraced. If that’s what MacDonald calls a “feminist takeover,” then I say bring...
While it is certainly exciting that Harvard has finally elected a woman president after over 371 years, gender should not be the main criteria for judging our new president. It is disappointing that the first debates about her election do not feature important issues about the University’s future direction, but rather whether or not she was elected solely based on the fact she is a woman...
Both in print and in conversation, the discussion of this huge event has veered away from substantive issues about Faust’s vision for the University; instead it has had a remarkably narrow focus: gender. Such dialogue neglects to address the momentous changes facing Harvard in the coming years—from the Harvard College Curricular Review to Allston and beyond...
Indicative of this gender-heavy focus is a recent column in The Crimson by Christopher B. Lacaria, "The Apotheosis of Doctor Faust," in which his attempt to evaluate Faust’s selection lingers solely on the gender issue. Lacaria suggests that Faust is somehow unqualified to lead the University because of her academic focus on women’s studies, comparing her obviously feminine position as head of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies to former President Lawrence H. Summers’ supposedly masculine post as Treasury Secretary. The column essentially pits masculinity against femininity, and, to no one?...