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Ironically, Summers’ ignorant comment might do more good for WGS than twenty years of advocacy on the part of WGS faculty. Besides drawing international attention, the “innate differences” comment has generated a whirlwind of discussion on campus about the status of women at Harvard and inspired the formation of two task forces to support women faculty and women in the engineering and sciences. If the University genuinely wants to improve the quality of life for female students and faculty and to recruit female professors, it must demonstrate its dedication to women?...
With so few FTEs and opportunities for advancement, WGS is hamstrung to recruit and retain distinguished professors—and in turn to attract concentrators. “Harvard students tend to seek out big-name professors and frequently consider their scholarly celebrity status a significant draw, and WGS needs to have proper resources and funding to bring such distinguished academics to the committee, and more important, to keep them there,” said Tracy E. Nowski ’07, currently the only full WGS sophomore concentrator. According to WGS Assistant Director Kathleen Coll, there are only...
...status of WGS at Harvard is shameful. Reputedly the leading research institution in the world, Harvard is in fact stifling scholarship in this area. Summers himself articulated the need to support gender studies in his January 19 letter to the Harvard community: “As members of a university, we should do all we can to recognize and reduce barriers to the advancement of women in science. And, as academics who believe in the power of research, we should invest our energies in thinking as clearly and objectively as possible, drawing on potential insights from different disciplines, to identify...
Harvard women’s basketball fought fire with fire this weekend, and in so doing made a critical statement: Championship offenses may belong to bygone years, but the Crimson’s resident status as beast of the Ivies remains alive and appreciably well...
...seniors who do recruiting are so repugnant to some of us because they have committed the cardinal sin of failing to disguise their ambition. They want lucrative jobs, and they want social status, and they want a nice apartment—and they advertise all of these wants with their Harvard portfolios and their pinstriped suits. Of all the transformations that Harvard students undergo during their time here, the most striking is their abandonment of ambition. Each freshman class, after all, is clotted with valedictorians, class presidents, math league champions, and serious athletes. There is a tacit consensus as early...