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This is one of the reasons Summers should choose a humanist as the next dean of the Faculty...
When Summers took over the helm of the University last spring from the great humanist, Neil L. Rudenstine, he became the first economics professor to assume the presidency. Rudenstine was a French poetry buff, who kept novels piled up around his office. The science-niks with whom he surrounded himself, men like Knowles (chemistry and bio-chemistry) and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 (computer science) added a little bit of hard accounting to Rudenstine’s aura. All that money Rudenstine raised with his melifluous voice and soft brown eyes was safe, donors...
...surface. I know for a fact that he has pissed people off at the Ed School and at the Divinity School and at the Law School and at the Kennedy School. That’s not a great start. And the other thing that concerns me as a humanist is the way Summers seems to be targeting just those in the humanities. Could that actually be at the root of this? Part of the reason why he has come in so anti-Rudenstine is the fact that he doesn’t particularly have any warm embrace for the humanities...
With Summers’ background in the social sciences and his selection of a scientist as Provost, some Faculty members say he might turn to a humanist to provide balance...
...other words, a liberal humanist whom circumstance is threatening to turn into an angry white male. But while Bickford often seems whiny--the angst of the tenured baby boomer doesn't ring tragic to many folks--at least it promises to take Max into new emotional territory for a man. And then some. Dreyfuss, Yorkin says, "is not afraid to be shown looking at his own paunch in the mirror and feeling...