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Hang around Oakmont long enough, and you will hear a jarring refrain: "We like to punish the members and destroy their guests." Consider this guest duly destroyed. Starting June 14, Oakmont will torture a more skilled set of duffers: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and the rest of the PGA players chasing the U.S. Open title. "I can't think of a hole where you go, 'Whew, I'm glad I'm on this one,'" says Brad Faxon, a 25-year tour veteran. "No golf club in America takes more pride in the difficulty of its course." Or, as an Oakmont...
...faculty meeting in 2005 accused Summers of being racist and anti-gay. My freshman spring, I watched Lecturer Brian C.W. Palmer ’86 and a few students in his class, Religion 1529, “Personal Choice and Global Transformation,” berate Summers, the invited guest speaker, for supposedly valuing money over human dignity. In keeping with other such attacks, little evidence was provided to back up such insults...
...Summers, who has been on sabbatical this academic year, was a guest at the final meeting of Psychology 1002, “Morality and Taboo.” The popular undergraduate course was inspired by the reaction to his 2005 remarks about women and science, and he had been brought in to give a first-hand account...
...addition to guest lectures in “Morality and Taboo” and Social Analysis 10, “The Principles of Economics,” Summers has been active at the Kennedy School, where he now has an office. He delivered a fall lecture in a faculty luncheon series, and has been giving his colleagues feedback on their work. Zeckhauser drops by Summers’ office regularly to grab a Diet Coke and to talk shop—the two are currently working on a paper on global warming...
Like many guest speakers at the Institute of Politics (IOP), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert S. Mueller III attracted unruly protests when he spoke in April. Nevertheless, the Harvard University Police Department’s (HUPD) heavy-handed response amounted to an alarming break with precedent and procedure...