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Weary of Lawrence H. Summers??s leadership, Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith Ryan is leading the newest charge against the embattled president. The self-described “cheeky” professor kicked back with FM this week, answering (a few more than) 15 questions about the campus-consuming controversy...
...felt that he himself has a vision of the educational project that is perhaps narrower than we’d like to see. FM: But the Faculty has made its opinion of President Summers clear before. The Corporation disagreed. Don’t you think it’s Summers?? right to continue working until he resigns or is fired by the Corporation? JR: The Corporation is indeed the body that hires and fires the President. There’s nothing that we can do about that. Basically the motion is to gauge the feelings of the Faculty...
...Professor Matory and President Summers??a woman, an African-American, and a Jew, respectively—have been the most prominent combatants so far. Do you see any significance in the fact that this conflict has centered on individuals who not so long ago would not have held positions of power at Harvard? JR: I’m glad you framed it that way, rather than suggesting that women and African-Americans are in an adversarial position toward Jews, because that wouldn’t be right. It might very well be that people who for some time...
...Summers??s main supporters in the Faculty, along with Professor Wisse? JR: Well, certainly Professor Mansfield. I don’t know really who else. There are other people, but at the moment what was strange was that at the meeting on Tuesday, those people weren’t present. Maybe it was just too early in the semester, coping with shopping period—that may have been what it was. In any case, nobody got up to defend him at that meeting. But I’m sure there will be supporters...
...fascinating new way to understand Korean culture,” wrote Professor Eun Mee Kim, dean of international studies at Ewha, in an e-mail. Initiated after many years of scholarly exchange between the Harvard-Yenching Institute and Ewha, the program was made possible through University President Laurence H. Summers??s recent study abroad initiative, Kim wrote. The program also aims at allowing students to experience South Korea through a variety of extracurricular activities, such as visiting Seoul’s National Museum, which displays “historic relics from the country’s rich past...