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...session. “Optimism was the word of the day,” former Provost Jerry R. Green, an economics professor, said. Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, who had been one of Summers’ most vocal opponents, quipped, “It was almost a love fest...
...very public airing already. For the good of the University, it’s time to hear the faculty’s side of the story. The only interest served by allowing speculation to continue to trump substance is that of Harvard’s many vocal detractors...
...Here’s what I say, Faculty. Those of you in the vocal minority who opposed Summers vehemently enough to convince the rest of FAS that the impasse was impossible to breach, you'd better start talking publicly. Students like me may not agree that Summers was kicked out because of your political correctness, but our trust in your good judgement is fading. We want the Curricular Review on the fast track. We want smaller, better-taught classes. We want a workable Allston plan. We want continued improvement of Harvard’s financial aid awards. And we want...
...campus with a painful history of anti-Semitism, most professors—including some of Lawrence H. Summers’ most vocal supporters—vigorously reject the charge that Summers’ faith had any connection to his downfall...
...haven’t in fact been able to articulate specifically what our objections were—and thus it gets reduced to some vague ‘discontent.’” Most of all, professors—even those who have been vocal in their criticism of Summers, including Classics Department Chair Richard F. Thomas—say that the Faculty should move past last month’s crisis despite stinging rebukes in the press. “To really respond would require going into specific ethical and managerial issues that simply keep the state...