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...editors: Ever since Lawrence Summers expressed the view that women are underrepresented in the academic world because of innate inability rather than prejudice (“Faculty Uproar Led to Ouster,” news, Feb. 22), I’ve been asking my colleagues whether they agree. To my surprise, many agree that gender-based discrimination is largely past, even when learning of studies that unequivocally reveal its persistence. It seems that the tendency to believe in a fair world is a powerful one, with the ability to perceive discrimination coming only slowly after a person has experienced enough...
...ouster of Harvard’s first Jewish president anti-Semitic in its effect if not its intent...
...means unique. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand recalls controversy surrounding presidential searches dating back to 1909. President Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, transformed Harvard into a research university. Forty years later, a lack of structure in the curriculum led to his ouster. His successor—A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877—created the concept of the concentration. Lowell, in turn, came under fire for his racism and anti-Semitism. A search committee installed James B. Conant ’14 in 1933, who helped create the SATs and developed...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers has predictably generated waves across the country. Harvard is not just an elite university; it has a special place in American culture because of its history, its influential professors, and undoubtedly its marketing of the Harvard brand. So the fact that Summers’ ouster became fodder for talk radio and national newspapers’ editorial pages is not surprising. Yet as an undergraduate at this fine university (and perhaps an aspiring journalist), it was disappointing to see the current fracas oversimplified and grossly misconstrued. Too often, newspapers and pundits have stated that Summers?...
...general public may remember than to educate people about the firing of a major dean or to talk about Summers’ close relationship with a economics professor found guilty of unethical business dealings. Yet the latter are the important factors that helped caused Summers’ ouster. And these issues become all the more important in understanding the legacy of Lawrence Summers. By casting Summers as the victim of political correctness, many journalists and pundits have mistakenly concluded that Harvard cannot be reformed and that other university presidents will be fearful of attempting to enact major changes...