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Summers’ Judaism entered the spotlight a year into his tenure, when he famously said a petition urging the University to divest from Israel was one of several actions that were “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.”
A few of Summers’ supporters—most notably Wisse and law professor Alan M. Dershowitz—have claimed that the divestment petition was an important factor fueling the Faculty’s anger with its president.
At a moment of such uncertainty and change for Harvard, a single universal truth about the community remains unaffected: that the University’s foremost priority must remain the improvement of the undergraduate experience. University President Lawrence H. Summers’ departure will bring many changes, but the place...
University President Lawrence H. Summers may be on his way out, and for Harvard College students, his departure has hardly gone unnoticed.In recent weeks, as rumors buzzed of Summers’ impending resignation, students perked up their ears. As the storm clouds gathered, many of campus’ more politically...
Citing University President Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation in face of faculty pressure, a Case Western Reserve University professor called for a vote of no confidence in the Cleveland university’s own president last week. Physics professor and renowned author Lawrence M. Krauss e-mailed the faculty...