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...environs of Lowell Lecture Hall placed yesterday’s drama in a theater that seemed to befit the magnitude of the event. While Summers’ job appeared more secure heading into the meeting, his ability to effectively govern the University remained—and, indeed, still remains—an open question...
...debate over Summers’ comments has opened up some space for the Harvard Faculty—and for all of us who belong to this community—to petition for redress of legitimate grievances. History will judge those who govern this institution by whether they transformed it in response to those grievances, or whether they blindly continued down a path that makes a mockery of the values and commitments of an open academic community...
...wonder whether the Iraqis can rule themselves. But remember, the British may have had the same question about American colonists. The British probably doubted that American farmers and frontiersmen could ever govern themselves. The first step is never easy, but freedom has to start somewhere. Phil Gonzalez Houston...
...Certainly many have been critical of specific statements he has made, but I have never heard a Graduate School of Design (GSD) faculty member express anger at President Summers...or indicate a feeling that [he] sought to govern by fear or intimidation,” Dean of the Faculty of Design Alan A. Altshuler wrote in an e-mail...
...Fear and manipulation have been used to govern capriciously,” added Skocpol, who said that professors see their speech chilled “in fear that they will be criticized publicly or lose their jobs...