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...first official gauge of student sentiment toward University President Lawrence H. Summers since his controversial remarks on women in science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) students voted that they do not lack confidence in his leadership...
Voting in an anonymous online poll that closed last night, 699 GSAS students said that they do not lack confidence in the leadership of Summers, while 608 students voted in support of the statement of no confidence. An additional 90 students voted to abstain, and 146 said that they required more information...
...GSAS students also voted on a more conciliatory second motion which expressed regret in Summers’ statements on women in science, their effects, and parts of his leadership style...
...GSAS student Andrei G. Goureev said that he voted against both the motion of no confidence and the statement of regret because he thought Summers’ comments were within the realm of science...
...Faculty wants to take a more accurate look at Summers’ leadership, there must be a properly designed survey to take the Faculty’s temperature (I declined to respond to the GSAS survey because it has the same bias problems as the faculty questions). Here’s one quick way to do that: for every survey sent out, randomly determine which statement is presented: the vote of confidence, or that of no confidence...