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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (675328)	3/16/2005 3:29:41 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

In order to be VERY PC, for the next 10 years, Harvard can let in 10 times as many women as men, and open the science dept. to only 1 in 5 Males... There, that solves all their problems. Isn't that the way the libs would handle this tricky situation?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (675328)	3/16/2005 8:45:14 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 769670

The want Sumners to leave for his remarks, but are defending Ward Churchill for his comments. No wonder these guys are losing elections! CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 17 - Bowing to intense pressure from his faculty, the president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, on Thursday released a month-old transcript of his contentious closed-door remarks about the shortage of women in the sciences and engineering. ... He theorized that a "much higher fraction of married men" than married women were willing to work 80-hour weeks to attain "high powered" jobs. He said racial and sex discrimination needed to be "absolutely, vigorously" combated, yet he argued that bias could not entirely explain the lack of diversity in the sciences. At that point, the Harvard leader suggested he believed that the innate aptitude of women was a factor behind their low numbers in the sciences and engineering. "My best guess, to provoke you, of what's behind all of this is that the largest phenomenon - by far - is the general clash between people's legitimate family desires and employers' current desire for high power and high intensity; that in the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude; and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination," Dr. Summers said, according to the transcript. "I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong, because I would like nothing better than for these problems to be addressable simply by everybody understanding what they are, and working very hard to address them," he added. Over and over in the transcript, he made clear that he might be wrong in his theories, and he challenged researchers to study his propositions.