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...appeared at the final meeting of “Morality and Taboo,” a course inspired by the furor over Summers?? presidency that led to his resignation last year. The class has examined why some concepts and ideas are considered improper in certain public arenas...
Rubin, a former Treasury secretary, was a key supporter of Summers when his presidency was on thin ice last spring, putting him at odds with other members of the Corporation who advocated for Summers?? dismissal...
...years ago, then-Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers?? remarks about women in science sparked heated controversy on campus and far beyond it. I disagreed with Summers, but I felt proud of the University’s concentrated efforts in response—more conversations, committees to study gender-based obstacles in the tenure track, and this fall, the opening of a campus women’s center. Then, and now, the best way to confront “bad”—offensive, painful, difficult, or unfavorable—speech is not by silencing...
...wake of Summers?? resignation last summer, at least four major donations to Harvard totaling $390 million were reportedly withdrawn. In the most high-profile case, Oracle CEO Lawrence J. Ellison publicly withdrew a pledge to donate $115 million to the school, saying he had lost confidence in University’s ability to spend the money wisely. Other donors declined requests for gifts or called for donations of as little as $1 in response to the resignation...
...Though he said that last spring many alumni were protesting Summers?? leadership and “question[ing] why we should be supporting at the same level,” he said that the “numbers are still enormous...