Comments on: Larry Summers Resigns as Harvard President

By: Olrnf

Olrnf — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:30:22 +0000

Truly a shame. Summers was challenging the orthodoxy, which is a necessary thing even at a place like Harvard.

The thing that brought him down was not "challenging orthodoxy" (whatever that means)--it was the fact that he was using university funds to defend one of his economics faculty buddies from charges that he defrauded the US government.

Harvard settled with the feds for more than $20 million and Summers' buddy was promoted. Summers basically kept the whole thing under wraps.

Using the university's funds to support a crook seems pretty troublesome and unworthy of someone who is a university president.

By: Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator

Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:54:32 +0000

Harvard President to Step Down

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Lawrence H. Summers has announced that he will resign as president of Harvard University at the end ...

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:49:04 +0000

Given how many academics pride themselves on challenging their students to question their assumptions, it's regrettable how some Harvard profs reacted to the same treatment.

By: UGA College Republicans

UGA College Republicans — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

to be a doctor. "She also abandoned hopes of becoming a scientist or mathematician because she didn't have the best grades in those subjects." First, yet another reason for her not to be a doctor. Second, wasn't the President of Harvard forced to resign for even so much as suggesting that a female might have trouble in a math or science class? Yep, thought so. "That, she said, left her current career choice --one that was shaped at the family dinner table. "We had the most lively, contentious dinner table conversations that probably anybody has endured," Clinton recalled of her family's