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...divestment, today’s reformers operate within the system, usually organizing change subtly through established bureaucratic channels and calm, rational discussion. Even small demonstrations of “active protest,” such as the Student Labor Action Movement’s trick-or-treating trip to Summers?? house, are construed as too extreme by many students...
...alterations affect students’ day-to-day lives. As Wisse oddly attests, much of the student body strongly supported Summers throughout his saga even though he endeavored to shake up the entire University. Nevertheless, even in this situation, the changes supported by students were measured and gradual; Summers?? initiatives, such as the new Curricular Review and Allston planning, were long-term and much-debated transformations, not quick or erratic fixes...
...recall the high points of his tenure (bopping with eager freshmen in Annenberg) and looking for opportunities to use what he has learned in the future (next year’s Ice Cream Bash). If Summers is still blue, Ben-Shahar has saved a seat in Sanders with Summers?? name on it. “Audit [Psychology] 1504 and do the response papers,” he recommends. “He made mistakes,” says Ben-Shahar, who also teaches Psychology 1508: Psychology of Leadership, “but he was willing to learn from...
News crews line the yard. Feisty reporters attack students with rapid-fire questions. Everyone seems to be talking about one thing, and one thing only: Larry Summers?? resignation. According to a Google News search, the nine days since the official announcement have generated over 1,000 articles about Summers in the United States alone. Seems like every major paper in the country has chimed in with an opinion about the Harvard presidency—as if the shakeup at Mass. Hall were the most important thing ever to happen in higher education. But what’s different...
...possibly the most prestigious and stressful position in the academic world.Harvard has had four presidents over the past 50 years, and each has made a significant contribution to the University. But from Nathan Pusey’s hardline approach to student protestors during the Vietnam War to Lawrence H. Summers?? ill-advised comments about women in science, it seems talk of their faux pas outlives memory of their contributions. While more recent presidents have exited gracefully, several of the past century left under controversial circumstances. THE SEARCH BEGINSThe hunt for Harvard’s next fearless leader begins...