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The president’s rocky relationship with the Faculty flared up again this year at a Feb. 7 Faculty meeting, where professors questioned the circumstances behind Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s Jan. 27 resignation and blasted Harvard’s handling of a government...
Jones said that he had seen friction between New Orleans natives and visiting volunteers who took photographs of decimated neighborhoods while displaced residents looked on.
However, Jones also recognized the value of college students traveling to other communities to perform social services. He said that such trips provide opportunities to wrestle with the “root causes” of social problems and can be oriented to fit the local community’s...
“College students never know the extent of their own power,” Jones said, adding that students should always think about cultivating long-range organizational relationships in public service matters and use the resources uniquely available to them at Harvard.
Summers ultimately fell to mounting pressure from members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences calling for his resignation. They had assailed his leadership style as well as the resignation of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and his handling of the government fraud scandal implicating Jones Professor of...