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Yesterday’s meeting lacked the tension that has characterized past meetings—except for a few brief moments when Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82 asked Summers how he planned to increase the number of non-white administrators and professors and whether Summers had any plans to attempt to lure former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 back to Harvard...
Following Kirby’s statement, questions period opened with remarks from Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, who has been a vocal critic of Summers in recent months...
...tendency of people to automatically agree with any statement presented to them, regardless of its content. How different would the results be if a Summers supporter had called the confidence motion—rather than Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory, a self-acknowledged opponent of Summers’ leadership—and asked the Faculty if they had confidence? The results would certainly be different, but at this point it’s impossible to know by how much...
After Tuesday’s meeting, Anthropology and African and African-American studies professor J. Lorand Matory—fiercest of the Faculty’s warriors—strode outside in triumph to tell the press that “there is no noble alterative to [Summers’] resignation.” In case you hadn’t gotten the message, Matory added a TV-ready soundbite: “Larry Summers should resign as president of Harvard University.” Pardon me for asking, but: resign for what, exactly...
Voting by secret ballot in a Faculty meeting at the Loeb Drama Center, 218 faculty members affirmed a motion put on the docket by Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, stating that “the Faculty lacks confidence in the leadership of Lawrence H. Summers.” One hundred eighty-five voted against and 18 abstained from the motion, which was tantamount to a vote of no confidence...