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...conversations with donors reveal that many Summers backers have maintained their involvement in the University—and they’re using it to exert their influence over the search committee...
...President Charles L. Brock, a prominent New York lawyer, says that outreach to alumni donors “has been really well orchestrated.” And real estate investor Kenneth G. Bartels ’73 says he “was rather impressed” by the search committee’s outreach effort after he attended a dinner in New York organized by Houghton and search committee member Frances D. Fergusson, a member of the Board of Overseers and a former Vassar College president...
That doesn’t mean that the donors know what’s going on in the search committee members’ minds...
...private events with the search committee, attendees say, donors are repeatedly emphasizing the same message: stay the course...
...give that search committee of Mr. Houghton a lot of credit for bringing somebody in that could really shake the place up,” Merck says, alluding to Houghton’s role on the panel that picked Summers. “The big thing is that they shook the cage and things are starting to move...