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Date: Feb 23, 2005

USM makes national news again!

Date: Feb 23, 2005

Towards the end of the article:

Laura Crimaldi, a general assignment reporter for the Boston Herald, said she couldn’t think of any recent campus news stories that had garnered such extensive national media attention. But Rob Tomsho of the Wall Street Journal noted that comparably acrimonious spats between college presidents and faculty members had erupted recently at Baylor University—where President Robert B. Sloan Jr. resigned last month after two faculty votes of “no confidence”—and University of Southern Mississippi, where President Shelby Thames’ effort to fire two tenured professors touched off protests last spring.

Date: Feb 23, 2005

These token references to USM are reminders that the national media have been neglecting the story.

Lawrence Summers could end up being fired. I don't know enough about the internal politics of Harvard to make odds, but it has to be considered a possibility.

Now... thought experiment. Suppose you could swap Thames for Larry Summers. (Even if you can't stand what Summers said about women and men's average aptitudes in math and science.)

Wouldn't a Larry Summers running USM be a massive improvement?

Robert Campbell

Date: Feb 23, 2005

Get this!!!

NBC had initially slotted a spot for the Harvard story on its flagship program “Nightly News” but altered its plans later in the day, Fahui said. “They’ve killed the story tonight,” Fahui said.

Brown said he thought the Faculty meeting would have drawn more media attention if professors had cast ballots on a motion expressing “no confidence” in Summers’ leadership. “No vote, no story,” Brown said.

Date: Feb 23, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Emma
"Get this!!! NBC had initially slotted a spot for the Harvard story on its flagship program “Nightly News” but altered its plans later in the day, Fahui said. “They’ve killed the story tonight,” Fahui said. Brown said he thought the Faculty meeting would have drawn more media attention if professors had cast ballots on a motion expressing “no confidence” in Summers’ leadership. “No vote, no story,” Brown said."

"...the Faculty meeting would have drawn more media attention if profesors had cast ballots on a motion expressing "no confidence" ...no vote, no story..."

Date: Feb 24, 2005

I just emailed a link of this thread to one of my friends who is a sophomore at Harvard and works for the Crimson. I know he will be honored to hear his student newspaper was deemed "national news!"

Date: Feb 24, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: asdfghj
"I just emailed a link of this thread to one of my friends who is a sophomore at Harvard and works for the Crimson. I know he will be honored to hear his student newspaper was deemed "national news!" "

There is no I in asdfghj!

Date: Feb 24, 2005

kicking for shared governance!