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...influence. Yet to expect established institutions to head the movement for wholesale reform is naïve. Rather, the passionate individuals that compose civil society must lead the charge. Only then will the various “enlightened” or “progressive” institutions follow suit...
...since Corporation member Conrad K. Harper issued the same demand last summer.The former dean, Peter T. Ellison, said the reason he left his administrative position last spring was because he could not work alongside Summers. And he said the character of the president’s leadership may better suit Washington, where Summers served as Treasury secretary.“Maybe this is the way secretaries of the Treasury treat people to whom they have delegated authority, but it’s not the way a University like this has or should operate,” Ellison said yesterday.The former...
...University, which paid $26.5 million to settle the lawsuit. But in a brief letter dated Feb. 14, Vice President and General Counsel Robert W. Iuliano ’83 says the article does not make clear that Summers recused himself from the University’s decisions about the suit “from the outset of his presidency at Harvard.” The letter also says Summers did not participate in “judgements regarding whether, when or how Harvard should review the conduct of employees involved in the HIID project.” Shleifer...
...divestment decisions, however, hinge on their place in a broader debate. Powerful as it is, Harvard alone cannot bring down the militias, or apartheid, or the tobacco industry. Harvard’s decisions have to fit within a broader movement. On apartheid, Gulf oil, and tobacco, other investors followed suit, and Harvard’s move carried large public weight. So far, Harvard’s divestment from Sudan has been largely neglected externally, and progress on Darfur has been slow. But at least as far as PetroChina is concerned, Harvard has done what it can, and we must...
...bill would reverse a recent Mass. Supreme Judicial Court ruling in a suit brought by The Crimson against Harvard. The Court ruled in January that the Harvard University Police Department and other university police forces are not bound by the same public records law as state and local police, and consequently do not have to release internal, crime-related documents...