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...deeply regret the impact of my comments and apologize for not having weighed them more carefully,” Summers wrote in an open letter to the Harvard community...
Immediate reaction to the apology was mixed. Student leaders of campus women’s groups praised the president’s statement, but two members of the Faculty Standing Committee on Women said the letter would not heal the wounds still stinging from Summers’ remarks last week at a National Bureau of Economic Research symposium...
...letter “puts a huge smile on my face,” said Connie Zong ’05, co-vice president of Women in Science at Harvard Radcliffe...
...Summers’ statement failed to assuage anger among Standing Committee members, who yesterday sent a letter to the president blasting him for sending “at best mixed signals to our high-achieving women students...
...serve to reinforce the institutional culture at Harvard that erects numerous barriers to improving the representation of women on the faculty, and to impede our efforts to recruit top women scholars,” reads the letter from the 19-member panel chaired by Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber...