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...agree that his personal interactions sometimes feel confrontational. But we also believe that he has made and will continue to make positive and significant contributions to our University. We are confident in Summers because we believe that his decisions are guided by a fundamental commitment to the ideals of scholarship and teaching that define this institution...
...variety of political views and differ on issues of international, domestic and Harvard policy. In particular, we fall on all sides of the recent controversy over Summers’ remarks on women in science. But a semester of engaging with Summers has shown us his commitment to teaching and scholarship. He adopted a provocative and challenging approach to difficult questions in the spirit of expanding the bounds of our knowledge. And this, above all, ought to be the primary goal of any academic institution...
When our president stumbles as a result of his ardor for knowledge, we should empirically refute his error, but at the same time champion his engagement with scholarship. I would rather see Harvard led by an occasionally mistaken scholar, who stands for and loves what we do, than by a fund-raising bureaucrat who protects himself from error by avoiding intellectual discourse...
Summers’ advocates, meanwhile, validated the scholarship behind the claims made in the speech and circulated a petition among the Faculty, asking that they actively affirm their confidence in Summers’ leadership if it comes to a vote at next Tuesday’s meeting...
...first got spanked for challenging the scholarship of Cornel R. West ’74 and should have learned that one doesn’t tilt against left-leaning windmills. But, Summers is either a slow learner or a conservative plant. Either way, he is exposing the left for its self-righteous attempt to homogenize scientific and political thought...