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...great amusements of Faculty meeting is University President Lawrence H. Summers?? thumb-twiddling. He makes fascinating patterns of ever-increasing complexity with his fingers on the table. He speaks for two reasons. The first is to contradict (and, recently, to express contrition), usually beginning with “Let me just say that…” and often devolving into an economics metaphor. The second is as chair, where he employs a unique insensitivity to parliamentary procedure. Summers?? poor grasp of the rules has caused such confusion that votes on simple matters with unanimous...
...know them. The meetings are not so often—only once a month, and lasting for 90 minutes, though in contrast to years previous Summers generally starts late—that one need struggle to look attentive through them. Sadly, it is hard to see Summers?? disregard for the customs of Faculty meeting as anything but symptomatic of the disrespect this administration has shown the professoriat. And the attempt to shut the Faculty out of University governance comes at a time when their input is most needed for the curricular review and Allston planning...
While administrators once hoped to begin voting on how to revamp Harvard College’s curriculum by this spring, a variety of setbacks—including the controversy surrounding embattled University President Lawrence H. Summers??has resulted in a year of only gradual progress, leading to dozens of revised recommendations, but no votes and little time for Faculty discussion...
...planned forums drew to a close, public discussion of the review was sharply curtailed while discussion of Summers?? leadership and his controversial Jan. 14 remarks on women consumed Faculty meetings, culminating in the March 15 “lack of confidence” vote...
Baker said last month—after the Faculty passed a resolution in March expressing its “lack of confidence” in Summers?? leadership—that the Army would not issue a request for an office at Harvard...