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...yes” to a no-confidence motion, there exists a presumption that confidence can be attained once more. Yet the Faculty appears to be forever unsatiated. In his bid to regain its confidence last year, Summers appointed one of his loudest critics, Thomas Professor of Sociology Theda Skocpol, as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), and he established a new deanship to promote Faculty diversity. The Faculty, like the president, must be held to account. As much as discontented Faculty members may lack confidence in Summers, we would modestly submit that, at this point...
...Ellison has since returned to teaching, and was replaced as dean by Theda Skocpol in June...
...Skocpol was a critic of Summers during the women-in-science controversy last spring. And Faculty members who feel that FAS needs an independent leader might favor Skocpol as a potential successor to Kirby...
...statement released to The Crimson the morning after Kirby’s resignation, Skocpol said that the Faculty is at a “critical juncture,” and added that “FAS must assert its strength and further its core values—furthering superb undergraduate education and a close relationship between basic research and teaching—while at the same time engaging closely in an ever more integrated University that is undergoing major, much needed expansion, especially in the sciences. We all have our work...
...Series drought, it seems anything is possible—like getting Skip Gates’ cell phone digits! Danny will look to blow up other campus celebrities’ mobiles as one of the new FM associates. Next on the list: Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, Theda Skocpol, and Marjorie Garber...