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...Harvard Corporation is the only body with the power to fire Summers. One of its members, Robert E. Rubin ’60, is adamantly supporting Summers and made phone calls to at least one University official last week on the president??€™s behalf, the Journal is reporting. Rubin did not return calls to his mobile phone seeking comment last night...
...manner in which reports of Summers’ resignation are emerging from Harvard may lend ammunition to professors who have blasted the president??€™s managerial style...
...former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) told The Crimson yesterday that Lawrence H. Summers should resign from his post as University president??€”becoming the highest-profile Harvard affiliate to call for Summers to step down since Corporation member Conrad K. Harper issued the same demand last summer.The former dean, Peter T. Ellison, said the reason he left his administrative position last spring was because he could not work alongside Summers. And he said the character of the president??€™s leadership may better suit Washington, where Summers served as Treasury secretary...
...same be said of a University president?At the most vulnerable juncture of his half-decade at Harvard’s helm, Summers now faces a fuming Faculty with few vocal supporters by his side.And many of his longtime allies are expressing disaffection with what they see as the president??€™s ineffective leadership.“If he’s going to be like every other college president??€”just a caretaker, fundraiser, and a mouther of platitudes—then why do we need someone who’s also going to offend people...
...long-time Harvard observer said that even if the Corporation were to decide to push Summers out, their involvement in the president??€™s resignation might not become publicly known...