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According to Todd, a friend of his who served on an ad hoc with Summers a few weeks ago said the president was much more respectful in his interactions with colleagues...
Many professors say that on ad hoc tenure committees—advisory committees that vet tenure candidates before the University president decides whether or not to grant the candidate tenure—Summers aggressively pushes his favored candidates over others and show favoritism towards certain subfields within a discipline, stifling a department’s ability to make its own appointments...
...concern is not so much the structure of the ad hoc committees as the President’s role on those occasions,” says Judith L. Ryan, who is the acting chair of the Germanic languages and literature department and is a member of the group of chairs...
Some, including Professor of Economics David I. Laibson ’88 and Todd, say they have heard reports that Summers has improved his conduct on ad hoc committees...
...first time I listened to the bell of Memorial Church was on the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001. There was an ad hoc service in the very same place graduation is held annually; (newly minted) University President Lawrence H. Summers gave an address. Ten thousand from across Harvard huddled together—in part just to be near each other, despite so many of us being strangers. Miles from home, having arrived just days before, we stared at each other confusedly. We marked the occasion, as best we could, without ever really grasping its meaning...