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Tensions between University President Lawrence H. Summers’ supporters and opponents lingered at yesterday’s Faculty meeting, with one of the outgoing president’s critics, mathematician Wilfried Schmid, telling the pro-Summers Yiddish scholar Ruth R. Wisse to “stop poisoning the atmosphere at this University...
...exchange between Schmid and Ryan, on one side, and Wisse, on the other, was a departure from the otherwise upbeat tone at yesterday’s session. “Optimism was the word of the day,” former Provost Jerry R. Green, an economics professor, said. Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, who had been one of Summers’ most vocal opponents, quipped, “It was almost a love fest...
Early in the meeting, Schmid read a statement chastising his colleagues for departing from “norms of civility” in recent weeks. “Most disturbingly, [economist] Edward Glaeser, [law professor] Alan Dershowitz, and Ruth Wisse have insinuated anti-Semitism,” Schmid said, according to a copy of his remarks that he gave to The Crimson...
...Edward Glaeser fortunately, and to his credit, has apologized,” Schmid said. In an interview with The Crimson last month, Glaeser drew a comparison between a magazine article that criticized Summers and the early-20th century anti-Semitic hoax “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” But Glaeser later said that he did not intend to suggest that the magazine article—or any criticism of Summers—was motivated by anti-Semitism...
...will be attending a piano performance program at Northwestern University after graduation, said his advisor, Robinson Professor of Mathematics Wilfried Schmid, suggested the topic...