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...mail in particular struck me as notably outrageous, and not just because I received it four times. The Coalition for an Anti-Sexist Harvard yesterday held a rally in front of the Science Center to SPEAK OUT FOR AN ANTI-SEXIST HARVARD and COMMUNITY VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE [their caps, not mine]. I confess, the almost-certainly-well-meaning Coalition lost me with the subject line—I don’t much appreciate being e-shouted at. What followed, moreover, was a ridiculous laundry list of demands that demonstrated an ill-conceived (and unfair) attempt to roll...
...isn’t, but I do know that Summers’ recent remarks to a meeting of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) can only be held against him for their being tactless, and that they gave no indication that Summers is a sexist. To link the worthy causes for which the Coalition advocates into a smear campaign against Summers is misguided at best...
...Coalition’s apparent dislike of the final club system has absolutely no place in a rally about President Summers’ leadership. The final clubs have nothing to do with the University’s administration, and to leverage condemnation of President Summers as sexist and unfit for leadership on his abolition of the final club system is unfair, unreasonable, and irrational...
...said it about any other minority group, within an hour he’d be out,” she said. “It’s so much more acceptable to make sexist comments...
Another recent graduate, Amee Chew ’04, is helping to organize the Coalition for an Anti-Sexist Harvard rally this afternoon. She said the demonstration, which will feature speakers from student organizations including the Radcliffe Union of Students and Harvard Socialist Alternative, will tie criticism of Summers’ remarks on women to wider issues affecting women at Harvard such as providing childcare for all Harvard employees and dismantling final clubs...