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...problem—hopelessly isolated, out of touch, and politically correct. As one of my friends—an economics and philosophy concentrator and an ardent Summers supporter—told me last week when arguing that the Faculty had made an egregious error in leading the cause for Summers?? ouster, “Harvard has to stop pretending it’s a liberal arts school.” He is not alone in this assesment: most students support Summers because he seems to be a straight thinker and a straight talker...
...make the place an authentic representation of Harvard.” Though the pub was slated to open this coming September, Corker said that renovations will most likely continue through the fall semester. The multi-million dollar project will be funded by University President Lawrence H. Summers?? renovation grant from last fall and from the Fund for Undergraduate Life from the Office of the Dean of the College, according to Corker. Corker said he was confident that the recent resignations of Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby will not have a negative effect...
...change in the meaning of a word is catachresis: “the application of a term to a thing which it does not properly denote or the perversion of a trope or metaphor” (Oxford English Dictionary).The catachresis of anti-Semitism at Harvard begins with President Summers?? 2002 denunciation of colleagues who signed an anti-Israel divestment petition as being, basically, anti-Semites. Certainly the anti-Israel divestment movement was and remains obnoxious, but not for the reasons the Summers partisans suppose. The very premise of divestment, from Israel or any other entity, operates...
...yesterday’s session. “Optimism was the word of the day,” former Provost Jerry R. Green, an economics professor, said. Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, who had been one of Summers?? most vocal opponents, quipped, “It was almost a love fest...
...comparison between a magazine article that criticized Summers and the early-20th century anti-Semitic hoax “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” But Glaeser later said that he did not intend to suggest that the magazine article—or any criticism of Summers??was motivated by anti-Semitism...