Harvard President Receives No Confidence Vote from Faculty

	posted by Matt on 11:28 AM March 17th, 2005
	Larry Summers is pilloried by the faculty.

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I Called (Score:2) by frank h on 01:30 PM March 17th, 2005 EST (#1) Just for the heck of it, I called Larry Summers' office yesterday. I spoke with, I guess, his secretary (a woman), and I told her this: "Hi. My name is Frank H*****, and I'm the president of a men's health organization in New Jersey (true, by the way). I ask that you please pass this along to Professor Summers. Please tell him that I encourage him to stay the course and remain in office regardles of this no-confidence vote." To which she replied: "Thank you very much. I'll tell him." Can't really tell much from the words, of course. But the tone of her voice had some genuine happiness in it. I don't know if it was because she was relieved not to be screamed at, or if maybe she's gotten to know and like her boss, or what. But if you go to Harvards Web site, you can get the phone number for the office of the President quite easily, and if you're inclined to give a polite, dareIsay even cheerful, phone call, I suspect you will be well-received.

Summers gets support from Harvard Corporation (Score:1) by mcc99 on 05:37 PM March 17th, 2005 EST (#2) This is good news for him: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A421 94-2005Mar16.html So, the stage is set for a duke-out between faculty and "the management". I wouldn't attend Harvard, I'll tell ya, for all the tea in China.

matradoxy (Score:0) by Anonymous User on 09:47 PM March 18th, 2005 EST (#3) The Summers witch trial has been a very educational experience. Time for decent people to figure out how to put an end to such travesties and move on to important issues, like sexist family law, sexist child custody decisions, men's lack of reproductive rights, the anti-male domestic violence industry...

There's some hope even at Harvard (Score:2) by Raymond Cuttill on 09:22 AM March 19th, 2005 EST (#4) The numbers suggest it wasn’t an overwhelming victory for the politically corrects. “Lack of confidence” vote For 218 Against 185 Abstain 18 218/421 = 51% “managerial approach” vote For 253 Against 137 Abstain 18 253/408 = 62% 51% is only a narrow majority. It seems there are a lot who don’t support the politically correct line and might want to ask these awkward questions about the lack of women in science. 62% however says to me, it was seen as a bad move to say it out loud. Saying it out loud and then apologising probably didn’t help. If he’d stuck to his guns it might have helped. As it is the faculty of arts and sciences it is difficult how much is from arty types and how much from analytical types, and as said the faculty is only one of ten schools at Harvard. It does like there is some hope even for Harvard.

Re:There's some hope even at Harvard (Score:1) by cosmo on 04:54 PM March 20th, 2005 EST (#5) 62% however says to me, it was seen as a bad move to say it out loud. Not so sure about that one. I certainly know some people who, having previously thought feminism had a noble quest, noticed the absurdity staring them in the face with this whole Summers thing. Feminists' reactions are raising questions about feminism that need to be raised. How ironic, since raising important questions is apparently Prof Summmers' crime.

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