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...There are people who I think believe that the only way to proceed is to box off the FAS as much as possible from intervention from above of the sorts that occurred,” says Jan Ziolkowski, acting chair of the folklore and mythology department, who has been the driving force behind the chair meetings. “Since we don’t have any say in the matter [of whether a president stays or goes] beyond what the vote itself expressed, what we have to do is ensure that operations that are most important...
When Summers appeared before a group of scholars at a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference on Jan. 14, his relationship with FAS professors was already tenuous, strained by disagreements over his treatment of faculty and an impression of a lack of transparency...
...Jan. 13, former Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 led a forum for students that focused largely on the need for better advising. The Jan. 18 Forum on Concentrations and Advising was held for the Faculty to discuss similar issues...
...planned forums drew to a close, public discussion of the review was sharply curtailed while discussion of Summers’ leadership and his controversial Jan. 14 remarks on women consumed Faculty meetings, culminating in the March 15 “lack of confidence” vote...
Innate differences. Though never actually uttered by University President Lawrence H. Summers in his remarks on Jan. 14 at a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference, a newspaper could not be opened or a television channel changed without confronting these two words in the early part of the year. Indeed, Summers’ actual comments soon swirled from a media storm to a full-on faculty hurricane. As public scrutiny of Summers—and Harvard—has finally started to die down, we hope that the University can return to truly important concerns like the number...