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...Rodin told Penn's student newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian, that she was not interested in moving to Cambridge...
...country's two most prominent woman presidents--Duke University President Nannerl O. Keohane and University of Pennsylvania (Penn) President Judith Rodin--have publicly taken themselves out of the running for Harvard's highest office...
...think Penn is a more exciting place, with a much more entrepreneurial spirit, and I would not leave here for Harvard," Rodin told the newspaper...
Harvard won't be the first to have granted a female the presidential post; among others, Nannerl Keohane assumed the position at Duke University in 1993 and Judith Rodin has been president at the University of Pennsylvania since the same year. But Harvard has historically been a bastion of WASP gentility--and traces of that aristocratic outlook still exist today. The maids' quarters may now house students, but the male-only final clubs continue to thrive, and those with a Harvard legacy in their family are unjustifiably given preferential treatment in the admissions process. The presidential search is a fortuitous...
...contrast Mary's role as a mother figure and source of strength to those in need. "Judith and Holofernes," a mid-16th-century oil painting, shows Judith holding the severed head of Holofernes, the general whose army she has just defeated. A marble statue of Eve, created by Auguste Rodin in 1899, shows Eve with arms wrapped around her body and head bent down in shame. Contrast this image of a woman whose weakness instigated the fall of mankind with Mary's role as a redeemer through the birth of Christ...