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Summers’ involvement in the ongoing curricular review was seen as heavy-handed by some in comparison to what has been the traditional level of presidential involvement in curricular matters. His withdrawal from the planning process earlier this semester—after the March 15 lack of confidence vote??was a consequence of significant faculty pressure to scale back his involvement in FAS affairs, professors said, although Summers says he had always planned to step back at this point in the process...
...this dream shall never die. Unfortunately, it has become a quadrennial mantra for defeated Democrats. If only we had fully excited “the base”—by which proponents mean liberals and minorities, or the proletariat masses that never vote??the Democrats would have won. Well, no. Elaine Kamarck’s “The Politics of Evasion” about 1988 showed the same result as Mark Penn’s “Analysis of Voting Patterns” about 2004: neither party’s core...
World Wrestling Entertainment’s Chris Nowinski, a.k.a. Chris Harvard, to sophomore defenseman Dylan Reese, at the Institute of Politics’ “Jock the Vote?? on Oct. 26. Reese, a professed democrat, had loudly whispered to one of his panelists seated next to him asking for the term’s definition at its first mention, and when audience members were permitted to submit questions, classmates Ryan Maki and Steve Mandes didn’t hesitate to test how carefully he’d paid attention. Reese’s response...
...make it worse, the second vote??phrased to be a compromise—is 66 words long and so brimming with compromise that it would take a herculean effort to disagree. It states that Summers should be rebuked for his comments and style of leadership, but that the faculty “appreciates his stated intent” to fix these problems. It’s all too easy to agree with any one of these three ideas and be lukewarm about the others, yet still vote in favor of the proposal...
...should have recognized that neither a lack-of-confidence nor a no-confidence vote (as well as calls for Summers’ resignation) would be effective—except as a vehicle to sow more division. The very wording of the “lack” of confidence vote??as opposed to a less widely supported “no” confidence—suggests especially that this vote was more about divisive power politics than about the actual sentiment expressed. The Harvard Corporation was never likely to fire Summers—lack of Faculty confidence...