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...slowly after a person has experienced enough prejudice to cause harm or impede success. This may help explain why so many highly successful people, like Summers, are not sensitive to the tremendous obstacle that prejudice still poses for women. So what lessons have we learned in the aftermath of Summers?? comments? First, speech that categorizes people based on race, religion, or gender as innately inferior—or possibly innately inferior—is deeply harmful, indecent, and always wrong. Each of us is gifted with a complexity of magnificent abilities and drives, all molded by our genes...
...around.So, should his charitable nature get him into Harvard?Somewhere, there are gleaming schemers viciously nodding their heads with barely faded memories of their parents’ fat checkbooks. For this reason, this has to be a big no-no.Granted, Cheek is not making his donation to Larry Summers?? office, and his gift came after he had already heard back from Byerly Hall. Nevertheless—and sad as it may be—a noble heart does not a Harvard man make.For all the generosity a prospective student may have, there has to be something above and beyond...
Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby released a brief letter to professors yesterday in which he spoke of the “difficult circumstances” over the past five weeks that have seen both his and University President Lawrence H. Summers?? resignations, while praising the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) for having “continued its work with unflagging energy and goodwill.” The message, which is less than 400 words in total, comes as the Faculty awaits Kirby’s annual Letter to the Faculty. In past years, Kirby?...
...episodes that drove the Faculty to oust its president mainly took place behind closed doors. But professors are facing a backlash in the court of public opinion-, as the response to the resignation drains ink barrels across the country. A piece in The Washington Times called Lawrence H. Summers?? opponents “the Lilliputians guarding their miserable little nests of selfish indifference.” The editor in chief of The New Republic, Martin Peretz, wrote in the magazine that an “alliance of frightened souls and hyped-up orators” chased Summers...
...calculus,” said Daniel E. Rauch, a senior at Millburn High School in New Jersey. But, he added, at that point “it’s really about splitting hairs.”‘NO COMPANY LINE’For some prospective students, Summers?? departure might make Harvard more attractive.“He wasn’t necessarily perceived as a positive aspect of Harvard,” said applicant Matt S. Levinson, also a senior at Randolph High School. Consequently, he added, the media attention and the resignation...