Tuesday March 15, 2005

Ides of March at Harvard

Summers Fails
Faculty’s Confidence Vote

And the faculty fails history’s.

← Previous post

Next post →

3 Comments

  1. Oh, that’s harsh.

  2. Well at least only the Harvare Corp can Summers him to the curb. I hope they don’t. I can’t believe the narrow-mindedness of the faculty. Aren’t they supposed to set the standard? I Summers remarks as an opportunity to get more women fired up to prove him wrong…but instead they take the easy way out.

    I went to one of the finest technical high schools in the country and I went there with plenty of girls (then) women (now)… we handle all the classes…including EE curriculum. puh-leeze. Shame on them.

  3. I’d be interested to see what your stance is on Summers. (Personally, I think he’s a tool. But I do worry that the faculty response does more harm than good. In fact, I worry that my views will get me in trouble with female faculty who are setting the “standard for outrage”

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *