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...Other pundits centered their explanations on Summers?? management style. Long-time Summers critic Richard Bradley, author of “Harvard Rules,” wrote that Summers?? “Washington-style politics” sealed his fate. Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway painted a memorable picture of the management landscape of a successful, large university like Harvard. “Universities,” she wrote, “function adequately enough when everyone is left to their own devices. Incompetent management seems not to matter, the ship goes on sailing. The trouble comes...
...Where Harvard professors missed the board altogether, Kellaway, and, to a lesser extent, Bradley, hit the bullseye. Pundits who used Summers?? ouster to score political points—either against political correctness, the Left, or Harvard faculty proper—were blinded by their own prejudices to what has always been a case of clashing management styles. Eugene Robinson of the Post summarized these wrongheaded opinions brilliantly: “Summers came to be seen as the champion of those who believe that elite American campuses are under the evil sway of a smug, leftist, feminist, multi-culti...
...Here’s where students like me start to get righteous. Ulrich, the 300th anniversary university professor, and her fellow Faculty members need to begin by responding to their critics. Throughout this tidal wave of punditry about Summers?? resignation—punditry that has effectively dragged my university through the dirt for two weeks—professors have said zilch about Summers?? managerial failings. They have failed in defending the image of Harvard, allowing critical and inaccurate opinions to run rampant...
...rest of the world, I’m now being taught by flag-burning, Communist draft-dodgers. Pundits have co-opted Summers?? resignation to discredit one of the world's best undergraduate educations...
...columnist called Harvard students too careerist to care about Summers?? ouster. We do care. But our faith in the Faculty’s reasons for throwing Summers out has, so far, muted any protest. Unless Faculty members speak up soon, that faith will be put sorely to the test...