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...Crimson greets with mixed feelings the selection of Robert E. Rubin ’60 by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) to deliver this year’s Commencement address. Rubin is a leading national figure and certainly a worthy candidate to deliver a graduation speech. Yet we are concerned that, through no fault of his own, Rubin’s speech may be regarded by many seniors as simply more of the same. When giving his address this June, Rubin will follow Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, two speakers whose major interests...
None of this diminishes Rubin’s stature. Currently the chairman of Citigroup, Rubin served as treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999, before which he chaired the National Economic Council and served as co-senior partner of Goldman Sachs and Co. Rubin’s leadership at the Treasury Department has been widely praised, and there are lessons to be found in his experience managing the U.S. and global economy...
...global economies have been the specialties of the past two graduation speakers as well. Rubin will also be the second Treasury Secretary to be invited to campus in so many months; Rubin encouraged the selection of his successor Lawrence H. Summers as Harvard’s next president, although HAA president Scott Abell has said that Rubin was picked to speak several months before Summers was chosen...
...school here I had no idea what an I-bank was and never dreamed of becoming a consultant. Over four years, though, Harvard has convinced quite a number of my classmates that in fact these are the best jobs available. The choice of former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin as our speaker for Commencement (News, “Rubin Chosen to Address Commencement,” Apr. 6) seems to only further this notion that nothing is more important than the bottom line...
...offense to Rubin personally. I’m sure that his view as a 60-something white man will be refreshing for undergraduates burdened with a Faculty that is too diverse. However, consider that Rubin’s predecessor was Nobel-Prize -winning economist Amartya K. Sen, and the Class of ’99 got to listen to Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan. Add these guys to our new President ,and it really seems as though Harvard is trying to tell us something...