Word: uproars
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Skeptical professors, backed by nearly unanimous applause, flatly rejected what appeared to be a choreographed attempt to address the uproar over Summers’ leadership. The proposed committee, which the president did not address but surely favored, died a quick death yesterday and left Summers without a concrete stepping stone from which to move beyond the Faculty’s discontent...
...letter marked the first official public statement by the Corporation since the uproar over Summers’ remarks began. Houghton did not return phone calls seeking further comment last night...
...month of uproar over Summers’ remarks, critics have largely focused their outrage on his suggestion that gender differences might account for the underrepresentation of women in science...
Safety concerns nearly caused the Athletics Department to cancel all Houses’ Intramural (IM) B-level crew boats last week, but a mild uproar from students induced administrators to keep the B-boats on hand, students learned yesterday...
...their 700-word missive, Presidents Susan Hockfield of MIT, Shirley Tilghman of Princeton, and John Hennessy of Stanford stopped short of criticizing Summers directly, but said that much of the uproar generated by Summers’ controversial remarks last month “has had the untoward effect of shifting the focus of the debate to history rather than to the future...