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This page is the first of the “Focus” pages that the editorial board plans to run over the course of the semester. Each will be a collection of op-eds that are all pertinent to a single, current topic of discussion on the Harvard campus or nationwide. The goal of the Focus section is to bring both a greater depth and a greater breadth of opinions and voices to the editorial page...
What Summers said at the conference of the National Bureau of Economic Research caused a firestorm, and he has said repeatedly that his words were not well chosen. The Crimson some weeks ago included statements from prominent psychologists on the topic of gender. Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker suggested that there was adequate evidence to take seriously the hypothesis that men’s and women’s distributions of quantitative and spatial abilities may not be identical. Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke was far more critical, arguing that gender differences are negligible, that it therefore...
...cynic might suppose that university professors are well protected from the public repercussions of their statements. Far better protected, say, than a university president, whose job security is far from assured, and whose decade-old memos from a previous job are still considered a worthwhile topic at Faculty meetings. (“We do not fear open give-and-take about anything you might have said,” Skocpol told Summers, while at the same time decrying the public criticism of professors—i.e., open give-and-take about something she might have said...
...September of 2002, Summers characterized the effects, if not the aim, of a campaign to divest Harvard from Israel as anti-Semitic. In response, a number of professors, including Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, criticized the president harshly for limiting open discussion on the topic. During Allston planning last February, Professor of German Peter J. Burgard bemoaned the lack of meaningful faculty debate on the preparations. And in the wake of Summers’ comments on innate differences between men and women, Daniel S. Fisher, professor of physics and applied physics, said...
Recently, the acquisition of space for women’s clubs has been a much-discussed topic, in light of the University’s plans for undergraduate life in Allston...