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Date: Feb 21, 2006

Summers Out

Date: Feb 21, 2006

Folks on another thread are promoting private tanks and rocket launchers, so it could be entertaining.

Date: Feb 21, 2006

Never mind the barricades, let's take up a collection and get him here! Yeah, he put his foot in his mouth (and had his words somewhat twisted around by others) but at least he understands the meaning of the word "university" --

Date: Feb 21, 2006

To the barricades wrote:

Harvard president Lawrence Summers has resigned. He was forced out by an angry faculty.

This comes as no surprise. A university president can not effectively govern without faculty support. At good schools an overhwelming vote of no confidence would be the end of the road.

Date: Feb 21, 2006

The refusal of the IHL to even acknowledge the faculty vote in the spring of 2004 (let alone respond to it) must have been a killer blow to the folks in the middle of that struggle.

Date: Feb 21, 2006

posted in the wrong thread

RE: We are not alone

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060221/ap_on_re_us/harvard_summers_7

other faculty sometime succeed in ridding themselves of dead weight. Real Wurl class university presidents know how to take a hint.

Date: Feb 22, 2006

The Chronicle today indicates that Derek Bok has once again taken over as Interim President at Harvard. On a related note, has anyone read Bok's newest book?

Date: Feb 23, 2006

Fox News: The Brutal Politics of Academia

It's amazing reading this FoxNews panel discuss how it is the Arts and Science faculty's fault that Summers is gone, because they are "liberal." But it is no surprise, considering how "Fair and Balanced" Fox News is.

Date: Feb 23, 2006

Joey Joe Joe wrote:

Fox News: The Brutal Politics of Academia It's amazing reading this FoxNews panel discuss how it is the Arts and Science faculty's fault that Summers is gone, because they are "liberal." But it is no surprise, considering how "Fair and Balanced" Fox News is.

Fox is the only network around not preaching the pinko,commie propaganda. Thank the Lord for Bill O'Reilly. You take Joe Parker and his tax raising buddies and ship them to Russia.

Date: Feb 23, 2006

Please dont'. I disagree with Joe on many political issues, but I am reasonably certain he's not a pinko whatever -- in fact, he's retired from the Navy.
I'm always interested to see remarks about Fox and the fact they are supposedly not "fair and balanced." CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC have their own take on issues, and I find them to be more left-leaning than not. Is it so terribly unfair to have one news outlet which is more conservative?

Date: Feb 23, 2006

I always prefer to listen to those that I agree with. That way I am never wrong..

Date: Feb 23, 2006

Date: Feb 24, 2006

Three Strikes wrote:

To the barricades wrote:
Harvard president Lawrence Summers has resigned. He was forced out by an angry faculty.
This comes as no surprise. A university president can not effectively govern without faculty support. At good schools an overhwelming vote of no confidence would be the end of the road.

Well, with that in mind, read the following:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/cc/?id=110008004

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