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...think they should do so in chorus with President Summers himself.”‘RULE BY THE MOB’Many of the president’s backers said they were surprised by the strength of anti-Summers sentiment at the Feb. 7 Faculty meeting??which may explain why so many of his strongest supporters were absent from the session.“I mean, this was like someone having a heart attack,” said Lee Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin. “This was not like the patient had diabetes...
...adding a no-confidence motion to the Feb. 28 Faculty meeting??s agenda, Judith Ryan, the Weary professor of German and comparative literature, is using a tactic from parliamentary systems and applying it to Harvard governance. But if Harvard were to follow parliamentary confidence-vote procedures to their full extent, then Ryan’s motion could cause the dissolution of the Faculty itself. In the United Kingdom and other parliamentary democracies, prime ministers who lose no-confidence votes have two options. “A government cannot operate effectively unless it can command a majority within...
...against the backdrop of Kirby’s abrupt resignation. Four individuals close to the central administration have told The Crimson that Summers forced Kirby to step down, and professors who believe that Kirby’s departure was orchestrated by the president may use today’s meeting??and the six that follow—to criticize Summers in a full Faculty forum. “I think a lot of people have sort of crossed the Rubicon on this chapter,” said one senior faculty member, referring to unhappiness with Summers stemming from...
...committee member Steven Pinker wrote in an e-mail. “That’s the way he treats everyone!” Pinker, the Johnstone Family professor of psychology, added that Summers had not told Kirby that he did not know how to run a meeting??“at least not in any of the meetings that I attended (and I attended most of them).”Summers eventually withdrew from the committee last spring after professors strongly criticized his interference in Faculty affairs.But even now that the Gen Ed committee has released...
...could enable advisors to approve of a virtual study card with the click of a mouse, not the scrawl of a pen. Improvements to shopping period should not come from the Registrar alone; professors should post full syllabi on their course web sites well before the first class meeting??in place of the partial or nonexistent syllabi often found online in advance of this semester’s shopping period—so that students can get a more complete sense of the course content and expectations. Posting lecture videos, either from previous years of a course...