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More importantly, the seeds sown for improvement in the undergraduate experience under Summers?? presidency are indicative of his larger willingness to press for change at an institution by nature resistant...
...Ultimately, too many of today’s entrenched interests felt threatened—justified or not—by Summers?? vision, or by the manner in which he sought to bring his vision to fruition. That was his ultimate undoing...
...blind to the tumult that defined much of Summers?? tenure. The list of indictments is not short. A public spat with former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 led to the departure of one of the dynamos of the African and African American Studies department. Then came Summers?? remarks linking proponents of a divestment movement from Israel with anti-Semitism “in their effect, if not their intent”; this accusation alienated professors who felt Summers was effectively squelching debate...
...Indeed, the charges are not few, and they are compounded by more widespread frustration with Summers?? heavy-handed and sometimes opaque management style. Worse yet are murmurs suggesting Summers had been less than truthful in meetings with individual Faculty members. Larry Summers was not without flaws. Some would say he had an inexplicable propensity for demonstrating his flaws all too often...
Yesterday, when Summers stepped out of his Mass. Hall office to personally address the public for the first time regarding his resignation, he was greeted by a crowd of undergraduates. A reluctant Summers??not knowing whether he was about to be lauded or lambasted—gingerly approached one student and shook his hand, then a second; soon dozens joined the fray of admiration. Students believe in Summers?? vision...