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Meanwhile, the Stanford chapter of “Students Taking Action Now: Darfur” (STAND), the activist group that pressed the university to divest, has not called on the school to sell its stake in two other firms that carry on joint ventures with the Sudanese government–French communications company Alcatel and German engineering giant Siemens...
...When people say he’s blunt I think they mean he’s very forthcoming,” Wolf says. “In general people expect equivocations but Summers seems willing to take a stand one way or another...
...decision to step down will present the department with its largest test to date—whether, for all its troubles, it will be able to stand alone, without the stewardship of the man who has been its shepherd for the past 15 years...
...when University President Lawrence H. Summers apologized at the Feb. 15 meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for his contentious comments about women in science this January, Skocpol, the Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, was the second professor to stand up and openly criticize the president for disrespecting and bullying his associates...
...stand at a moment where we want to change the culture and composition of our universities,” Evelynn M. Hammonds, a professor of African and African American Studies who chairs the Task Force on Women Faculty that Summers appointed in February, told an audience of nearly 200 members...