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Last June, 26 senior faculty women sent a distressed letter of response to University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, expressing their concerns about the precipitous slide in tenure offers. This fall, 73 female senior faculty members agreed to sign a statement urging the administration “to assign its highest priority to reversing the downward trend of the past three years in FAS senior offers to women.” Summers and Kirby agreed to meet with 50 female senior faculty members on October 6 in the Barker Center. Both expressed concern...
...these more recent complications, there are small pockets of critics who think that the slide in tenure offers may speak to larger problems with Summers’ and Kirby’s approaches to encouraging the promotion of women...
...senior woman in the social sciences, who would speak only on condition of anonymity because she wished to maintain good relations with her colleagues, claims that Summers and his administration, in trying to lay the blame for the slide in offers on departments, “force them into a quota type of thinking...
...best of the bunch is the new EyeToy: AntiGrav, on sale Nov. 9 ($50, camera included). In this fast-paced fantasy racing game, you play as a hover-board rider who flies over gorgeous terrain, performing skateboard-style tricks, flips, grinds and spins. You can jump off ramps and slide along rails. You can fly through multicolored rings in the sky. Along the way, you hit targets with your hands to rack up points and earn speed bursts. With five levels to master, it could take weeks or months before you tire of AntiGrav...
...Kerry thundered. "This is an outrage. I'm not going to sit and take this anymore." When the rest of the team in Washington joined the conversation by speakerphone, Kerry learned that it wasn't just a principle at issue: the campaign's polling numbers were showing an alarming slide...