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...editors: Ever since Lawrence Summers expressed the view that women are underrepresented in the academic world because of innate inability rather than prejudice (“Faculty Uproar Led to Ouster,” news, Feb. 22), I’ve been asking my colleagues whether they agree. To my surprise, many agree that gender-based discrimination is largely past, even when learning of studies that unequivocally reveal its persistence. It seems that the tendency to believe in a fair world is a powerful one, with the ability to perceive discrimination coming only slowly after a person has experienced enough...
...said.Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that the campus controversies of the late 1960s were only “one factor” contributing to the decline in applications at that time.And last year, when Summers sparked a national uproar with his remarks on women in science, the College experienced “virtually no change in the yield,” Fitzsimmons said.When asked whether the controversy over Summers would deter prospective students, Weary Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatue Judith L. Ryan said, “I think that...
...undergraduate life.”But with the exception of student leaders and a few particularly spirited undergrads, the student body has insisted on apathy throughout the Summers era. And by and large, their response to the President’s resignation has not quite been the emphatic uproar described in some of the nation’s newspapers. Maybe next time, says Undergraduate Council President John S. Haddock ’07: “It’s essential that undergraduate students become very active in the search for a new university president,” he says...
...authority. There was nothing to recuse myself from.”INSTITUTIONAL MATTERSComing the same month that Summers angered many professors by forcing William C. Kirby’s resignation as dean of the Faculty, the Institutional Investor article added still more fuel to the Faculty’s uproar.“Bill’s resignation was the most important thing behind it,” said Coolidge Professor of History David Blackbourn, referring to Summers’ ouster. But, he added, “Larry’s answer to the question about Andrei Shleifer also really...
...Institute of Politics hosted a panel last night on the international uproar over the publication of Danish cartoons involving the Prophet Muhammad and Islamic culture—a discussion notably more subdued than recent global reactions to the issue...