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Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) kicked off its spring “Right to Organize” campaign by delivering a letter to University President Lawrence H. Summers?? Mass. Hall office yesterday, demanding that Harvard take a stronger stance on worker unionization and stop all business with the Coca-Cola Company...
Gould-Wartofsky said that the administration should not be wary of making large-scale changes, such as those called for by SLAM, despite Summers?? recent resignation and Bok’s upcoming tenure as interim president...
Predictably, Summers?? resignation has inspired an avalanche of misinformed editorials, sensationalist radio and television punditry, anti-intellectual caricatures of the Faculty, and acrimonious debate—on campus and far outside of it. Widespread Faculty discontent has been likened to a “purge,” a “lynching,” and a “coup d’etat.” In some circles, Summers has been crowned a “martyr,” the victim of rampant “political correctness” among a faculty...
...This entire ordeal—Summers?? presidency and the embarrassing controversies that plagued it from the beginning—boil down to two fundamental problems: style and ethics. Everyone knows that Larry Summers was brought to Harvard to “shake things up.” For better and for worse, he has done that. His penchant for brash, inflammatory, and often vulgar statements is legendary. Indeed, it is difficult to find a faculty member at Harvard who doesn’t have a “Larry story”: an account of some unpleasant encounter...
...Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82 illustrates, Summers also has an ethics problem. This is perhaps most starkly evident in the way that he worked to maintain a fortress of secrecy around him while employing Washington-style political tactics as a way to embarrass or humiliate colleagues. In Summers?? inner circle, economics is about power rather than principle. And this debilitating corporate worldview—where market values are more important than moral values—constitutes the real threat to Harvard’s reputation and standing...