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...remarks in question don’t seem to merit the outcry they caused. Some of those in attendance criticized Summers for making light of genocide—even of saying that the genocide of American Indians was coincidental. Yet after Summers released a transcript of his speech, the word “genocide” was nowhere to be found. Instead, Summers pointed out in the speech that more Native Americans died from disease, “a consequence of assimilation,” than from the actions of Europeans and Americans. Summers remarked on the tragedy...
...American experience (“Sept. Remarks Resurface,” News, Apr. 20) goes to show that liberal academia will stop at nothing to see Summers tossed out of office. Everything he said was factually correct, as even his opponents acknowledge. There were no epiteths hurled. While the transcript of remarks cannot tell us about delivery style, there appears nothing in this speech which would seem offensive. One must conclude that the only offense Summers committed was straying off of the politically correct ideological reservation these professors inhabit...
...should say more. On the record, that is. Summers can avoid scandals like this from developing into national news by releasing more information earlier. With a new press officer in place, Summers has the opportunity to diffuse flaps like these and forge better press relations by compiling and releasing transcripts promptly, not, say, seven months after the fact (the president’s office only made a transcript of his remarks available to The Crimson this week—the conference convened last September). The best way to prove that you haven’t been insensitive...
Early in his remarks, according to the transcript, Summers cited a Harvard School of Public Health study revealing that in one Native American community in South Dakota, life expectancy is lower than in Bangladesh. Persistent poverty among indigenous communities in the United States, he said, is “a major area of concern.” Summers noted that he and his colleagues in the Clinton administration’s Treasury Department “worked hard and, I think, with some success,” to make loans more readily available to Native American communities...
...Crimson did not attend the conference last fall but sought a transcript of Summers’ remarks amidst swirling rumors that the president’s speech had irked his audience. Lucie McNeil, who was Summers’ spokeswoman at the time but no longer works at Harvard, did not furnish The Crimson with a transcript despite repeated requests in September and October...