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...that every day, members of an egalitarian community make a choice: the ideal society we are called to build, or your own, pathetic, selfish desires, you maggot. Which’ll it be today? A university jeremiad, delivered from within, should define the choices of Harvard students, leaders, and professors??as starkly as possible.University President Lawrence H. Summers said in his address to undergraduates on Sunday, “At a time like this, the question should never be what you are against.” But those colonial New England preachers understood a practical fact about communities...
OCTOBER 15, 2002 Kirby’s first Faculty meeting came a month after the president famously called some professors?? actions “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent” in an address at Memorial Church. “My hopes would be, as a University, that we could be a place where a wide range of perspectives could be discussed freely,” Summers said at the meeting, responding to criticism from some professors...
...read with bemusement Professor Harvey Mansfield’s comments on course evaluations. His claim that they “introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors?? must appear odd in light of recent events. Surely Mansfield disapproved of the Faculty’s (i.e. the “more wise”) pushing out President Summers over the objections of the students (i.e. the “less wise”)? We appear then to be faced with a double paradox: occasionally, the “less wise?...
...neither gave nor received inappropriate aid on an assignment or exam, and that the student did not misrepresent his or her work or commit plagiarism.It may sound trite, but it is important to ensure honesty and trust in the undergraduate community, where Harvard students learn and live. Although individual professors?? policies on academic honesty are often outlined in syllabi, and the eight lines in the student handbook are better than nothing, Harvard lacks a cohesive code of honor, which would set a universal precedent of integrity both inside and outside of the classroom.Dating from the institution...
Kirby noted the “issues of diversity and inclusiveness” that were brought into focus in the course of professors?? fight with the president, which intensified in January 2005 after Summers made his comments on the “intrinsic aptitude” of women in science...