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After the thrashing she took on editorial pages last year as a multicultural extremist and a "quota queen," it seems that Lani Guinier '71 is coming back with a vengeance. In addition to her long-held tenured professorship at Penn law school, she's been hot on the lecture circuit, she's published her first book and her ideas are now given serious consideration as potential solutions to current voting rights problems. "Call it Lani Guinier's Revenge," says The New York Times. What's more, she's been invited to speak at Harvard as this year's Class...
Finally, we were more than a little confused by the announcement of Green's resignation. For one thing, the administration, in its official press release, refused to call it a resignation, referring instead to Green's decision to "assume a distinguished, new professorship." For another thing, the announcement came late in the afternoon, and neither Green nor almost any of his Mass. Hall colleagues would comment on it. Moreover, almost nobody knew that the Provost was stepping down until the news release was issued--including Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman, chair of the department to which...
...members of the Students Coalition for Civil Rights displayed a banner during the speech which said "Please Come to Harvard Law School." Guinier has been offered a visiting professorship at Harvard Law School...
...Tuesday, the University announced that Provost Jerry R. Green, after nearly two years as Harvard's second highest official, would leave his job and assume a newly-created professorship for inter-faculty teaching and research...
Both personally and professionally, it has been a privilege for me to work closely with Jerry since he accepted my invitation to become Provost. His new Leverett Professorship is a symbol of the strong commitment that he and I share to scholarship across Faculty lines. It will enable him to combine and build upon his achievements as both Provost and scholar, bringing the insights he has developed through his leadership in inter-Faculty initiatives to bear more directly on the actual practice of interdisciplinary teaching and research. I hope very much that Harvard's next Provost will accomplish as much...