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Ladies and gentlemen of the Congress and my fellow Americans, I stand before you today to present my annual assessment of our great union. Unlike past years, however, I cannot simply use words like “confident” and “strong” to describe the state of our country. We are, if I may borrow from the address that President John F. Kennedy gave from this podium 45 years ago, “in an hour of national peril...
...Faculty at large , the dean needs to forcefully represent the views of the Faculty and maintain a strong relationship with the president. And when policy disagreements arise between Summers and the new dean—as they surely will—the dean should not hesitate to firmly stand his or her ground. He or she must not be seen as a mere executor of the president’s wishes. Luckily, Summers’ reputation for favoring intelligent argument among his advisors means that a working relationship and a strong Faculty leader need not be mutually exclusive...
...Gordon also noted that some faculty were frustrated last year with Kirby’s failure to “stand up more forcefully” during the aftermath surrounding University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on women in science, but said Kirby felt it was “important to present a unified front publicly...
...Adoption of the curricular review proposals will stand or fall on how people view them, to some extent regardless of whether Dean Kirby is there or not,” Gordon said...
...Both were struck by the specific injustice of the segregation of the Montgomery City Bus Lines, which became a national issue when Rosa Parks made her stand in that city in 1955. After that incident, the Dexter Avenue church became a growing meeting place for civil rights activists. Soon, King's life and legacy began to take shape in a public sphere, while at home four children would soon enter the their household...