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Glimp Professor of Economics Edward L. Glaeser, who has frequently spoken out in Summers?? defense, said on Wednesday that the issue of anti-Semitism was “never the slightest thing on my mind” during the crisis that forced Summers...
...Glaeser who helped revive the charge last month, when he told The Crimson that a magazine exposé on fraud allegations against Summers?? friend and fellow economist Andrei Shleifer ’82 was “a potent piece of hate creation—not quite ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,’ but it’s in that camp...
...Summers?? religion was also brought to light last Friday when Bernard Steinberg, president and director of Harvard Hillel, released a “Dear Larry” letter thanking Summers for his “unapologetic identification with the Jewish people...
...best way to make it clear from the start that the next president should engage all the members of the Harvard community is to formally involve students and faculty from across the University in the search for Summers?? replacement. This is not without precedent. In 2000, Princeton University, which has a considerably smaller graduate student population than Harvard, had one graduate student and two undergraduates on its 18-member presidential search committee. Stanford, too, named one undergraduate and one graduate student to its 15-member search committee in 1999. By contrast, Summers was selected by a committee consisting...
Among the many causes relating to Lawrence Summers?? downfall, one that is worth dwelling on is the debate over undergraduate general education at Harvard. The college now offers, for example, fewer of the kind of survey courses many undergraduates want and need—the sort of connect-the-dot overviews of the arts and sciences that form the foundation of a liberal education. Understandably, most Harvard faculty members want to teach their specialties. The core curriculum tried to bridge the gap by emphasizing methods of study rather than content, but it doesn’t seem...