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...already three years in the making), and with support from deans and faculty—and the support of undergraduates—we can renew reform without pause.At this point, the review’s first priority should be to eliminate the Core Curriculum. Students and professors are in widespread consensus that the Core is generally impotent and that its philosophies are misguided. Now is our chance to dissolve it and leave something better for posterity (perhaps, if we act quickly enough, for current underclassmen to have the choice between completing their general education curriculum through Core requirements or distributional...
...Sciences (GSAS). Under the existing governing institutions, a single faculty can both too easily be dismissed as an outlier and too easily generalized as representative of the larger University. Last February, when FAS voted “no-confidence” in Summers, confusion ensued. Was this emblematic of widespread discontent throughout the University? More recently, the dearth of support from FAS—presumed by those outside the academy to be representative of all Harvard faculty—prompted Summers’ resignation without any systematic input from faculty of Harvard’s other schools. Harvard needs...
Predictably, Summers’ resignation has inspired an avalanche of misinformed editorials, sensationalist radio and television punditry, anti-intellectual caricatures of the Faculty, and acrimonious debate—on campus and far outside of it. Widespread Faculty discontent has been likened to a “purge,” a “lynching,” and a “coup d’etat.” In some circles, Summers has been crowned a “martyr,” the victim of rampant “political correctness” among a faculty...
...Viewed in this light, Faculty discontent over Summers’ leadership is perfectly justified. What surprises me is the widespread student discontent over his resignation. In talking to my students over the course of the last week, I have come to realize that they still have many questions—good ones—about the various forces that led to Summers’ resignation. Where faculty members see a tyrant dismissive of their work and opinions, students see a leader who seems genuinely interested in their lives. When professors recoil at the sight of Larry Summers signing dollar bills...
...Jerry’s is a pretty widespread chain so I am surprised that even though real estate prices are different, a Cambridge scoop is cheaper than a Boston scoop,” he said...