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...martyr,” the victim of rampant “political correctness” among a faculty comprised of left-wing nut-jobs. Those who defend Summers often speak in the language of apocalypse, as if Harvard will not survive without Larry Summers at the helm...
...when Lawrence Summers took the helm at Harvard in 2001, the idea was that he had to shake up an institution badly in need of change. "I have sought for the past five years to prod and challenge the university to reach for the most ambitious goals," he wrote last week in a letter announcing his resignation. Summers' view that he had inherited a university with urgent problems is in part a way of justifying the highly undiplomatic way he conducted himself as president, but he's hardly alone in his view. His temporary successor, former Harvard president Derek...
...interim president, Derek C. Bok will face pressure from students who want Harvard to cut its ties to an oppressive African regime. For Bok, it may seem like déjà vu.When Bok was at Harvard’s helm in the late 1970s, the campus was consumed by a controversy over the University’s financial links to apartheid-era South Africa.Bok, who returns to Mass. Hall on July 1, took a skeptical stance toward divestment demands.In open letters to the Harvard community, Bok wrote that he believed divestment was unlikely to help end apartheid, and might...
Philosopher and political scientist Amy Gutmann ’71 likewise made the short list in Harvard’s last presidential search, The Crimson reported. In 2004, the University of Pennsylvania lured Gutmann away from her provost post at Princeton to take the helm of the Philadelphia school. It remains to be seen whether Gutmann’s memories of her undergraduate days in Radcliffe’s South House—now named Cabot—would pull her back to her alma mater...
...Faculty, will place Harvard at the forefront of future scholarship, scientific and otherwise.In short, Harvard’s future seems secure even if its present is just the opposite. During his resignation speech yesterday, Summers talked about his vision and his initiatives continuing, even if he himself relinquished the helm. That seems like a fair plan, save for one question: Can anyone besides Larry Summers get it done?My guess is yes. A good portion of the Faculty’s grievances are purely personal, not intellectual. Humanities professors may gripe about Harvard’s investment in science...