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...respect and applaud him for his tenacity, zeal, and willingness to stand up for the academy and freedom of thought at his own expense, while using the power of his office to implement initiatives that work to improve our beloved Harvard. There is no crisis of leadership in the president??€™s office. Thank you, President Summers, for all you have done and continue to do. We’d appreciate if you would stick around quite a bit longer...
...read The Crimson’s repeated exposés of junior faculty denied tenure for their political speech. (Except, perhaps, for Peter Berkowitz.) Including the case of former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, we have not even seen public criticism by the President??€™s office of any member of the Faculty for political positions. In fact, the only person we’ve seen threatened with losing his job is Larry Summers...
...Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin, who attended Summers’ NBER speech and has emerged as one of the president??€™s strongest defenders, concedes that the talk may have lent itself to being misinterpreted...
...Summers’ critics remain most upset about the president??€™s dismissal of the discrimination claim, which they say contradicts decades of research and represents a setback in the fight for gender equality...
...forum engendered a lively discussion of the fallout from the president??€™s gaffe, including the withering response from national media and some members of the Harvard Faculty...