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While he has not always been optimistic about relations between North Korea and the United States, Walsh said that an October 2004 meeting??hosted by Walsh’s group—between North Korean diplomats and Senate Committee staffers led him to feel otherwise...
During the first hour of the meeting??which was a continuation of last Tuesday’s contentious Faculty meeting??many faculty members continued to criticize Summers’ leadership of the University, though their remarks had a more conciliatory tone than those made last week. Much of the conversation focused on ways Summers could restore power to the Faculty and strengthen professors’ trust in him, and a much-discussed no confidence vote in Summers’ leadership was not held...
...today’s meeting??which was attended by about 500 professors—many faculty continued their attacks on Summers’ leadership of the University, criticizing the lack of trust they say he has fostered between himself and faculty. However, supporters of Summers also spoke at today’s meeting, which lacked the tension and anger that marked last Tuesday’s discussion...
...three-person committee proposed at the meeting??which would have been composed of Knowles, Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skocpol, and Pforzheimer University Professor Sid Verba ’53—would have worked to “reshape the interactions of the President and the Faculty and to help communicate the Faculty’s concerns to the governing board,” Knowles said...
...have rallied to Summers’ side have quickly tried to make it a political debate, using the weary charge of “political correctness” and conventionally political tactics like petitions and—as I suspect will be shown by this afternoon’s meeting??“get out the vote” drives. If this conversation takes place on such political terms, Summers will have won by default—bringing Washington politics to a university that has thus far resisted them. In short, with Harvard in the media spotlight, unusual...