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...committee looked to Rudenstine for a quiet tenure, an increase in faculty salaries, and the enlargement of the endowment. After Rudenstine’s success in raising the money, the Board wanted someone to spend it. Their final choice: Summers.WHO’S NEXT?Based on this reactionary pattern, the next president might be a conciliator, favored by the faculty and supremely tactful.“Whoever comes in next first has to deal with the unique goal of responding to an unhappy faculty,” says Graff. It seems like anyone would jump at the chance...
...would you, as students, like to be openly insulted in a class taught by a brilliant professor who thinks that you are second rate? And if that behavior becomes a pattern, would you still consider him or her a role model that Harvard should retain? This does not even address the issue of whether you are, in fact, “second rate...
...Hanley wants no ill-will towards the HRDC or the process. “That’s OK,” he says. “We’re going to have a great time.” There is little time to waste, however. The pattern of the auditions is down to a science now; it has achieved a choreography of its own. Evaluation of auditionees is now reduced to numbers on a sheet and an occasional, scribbled comment. Sometimes the most valuable communication is a meaningful glance between staff members. Hanley’s watch lies...
...chair Ben D. Mathis-Lilley ’03 and FM publisher Kenyon S. Weaver ’03. October 30, 2003 FM printed a jack-o-lantern stencil of Summers’ face so students could make their own festive Jack-O-Larrys. With a pin of the pattern to the pumpkin, viola! Summers’ smirk glowed eerily throughout the night. December 4, 2003 FM got the scoop on Summers’ “low-carb, high-tennis” diet. Summers’ suddenly lean look shocked students, and FM was determined...
...that Summers’ “undermining the authority of a dean in front of others, hollow statements of support, and denials that appear less than fully truthful” caused Ellison to leave his post at the end of last spring semester.Ellison said he believes a similar pattern of behavior led to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s Jan. 27 resignation.Ellison’s remarks, first reported in The Boston Globe yesterday, came seven months and one day after Harper, a member of the University’s highest governing board, told Summers...