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...Physics Lawrence M. Krauss, who circulated a petition among faculty calling for a no-confidence vote, said yesterday that he was “shocked by the overwhelming nature” of faculty support for the motion. The Case faculty vote came a little more than a week after Summers?? resignation on Feb. 21. Summers was scheduled to face the second lack-of-confidence vote of his career at a Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on Feb. 28. Summers lost a similar motion last March by a vote of 218 to 185. Krauss said that although...
...director Dr. Bernard Steinberg thanked outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers for his “unapologetic identification with the Jewish people.” Summers was Harvard’s first Jewish president, and Steinberg wrote that Summers stood firm in his support of the community. But following Summers?? ouster, whether or not Harvard’s next president will be so resolute is less certain.Summers’ identification with the Jewish community was a product of little gestures—maintaining a relationship with Hillel, for instance, and lighting a menorah with Chabad. Summers attended...
Tensions between University President Lawrence H. Summers?? supporters and opponents lingered at yesterday’s Faculty meeting, with one of the outgoing president’s critics, mathematician Wilfried Schmid, telling the pro-Summers Yiddish scholar Ruth R. Wisse to “stop poisoning the atmosphere at this University...
Wisse told The Crimson last week that anti-Semitism was “one of the factors at play” in the run-up to Summers?? resignation, and she made similar remarks to The Boston Globe. Yesterday, German literature scholar Judith L. Ryan, who sponsored a motion of no confidence in Summers?? leadership, said that she wondered if Wisse “realized how hurt I felt personally by the allegation of anti-Semitism...
...aftermath of University President Lawrence H. Summers?? resignation, a range of theories has been offered to explain what went wrong. Generating much heat but little light, every media outlet blamed a different culprit, from a hard-left faculty of “feminazis” to structural problems in Harvard’s system of governance. Unfortunately, with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ continued silence on the issue, what Pforzheimer House Master James J. McCarthy called “uninformed and/or misinformed” speculation may be the best explanation that the Harvard community gets...