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To: LindyBill who wrote (104898)	3/20/2005 12:32:56 PM
From: Bridge Player	Respond to of 793896

An excellent piece on Summers, containing the real, underlying background of the hysterical flap by the left over his remarks... AMONG HIS MANY CEO-LIKE ACTIONS, Summers has driven Harvard's traditionally undergrad-averse faculty to become more engaged in undergraduate education. The merits of this movement aside, Harvard faculty, as a rule, does not respond well to being pushed. Moreover, he controversially decreed that undergraduate education should be more weighted to mathematics and the sciences. As former provost Green points out, "He has a sincere belief that Harvard graduates will need more science and technical background in the next 50 years than they did in the last 50. In the process of discussing this belief, he has hurt the feelings of humanities faculty members and others who feel that their work is not valued by the president." Summers has also been progressing on a dramatic expansion of Cambridge-based Harvard into neighboring Allston, a major long-term project that will affect the university for generations. The faculty expects to have a major voice in the Allston expansion and many professors feel Summers has made his plans without receiving adequate quantities of their advice and consent. And of course, Summers has made a habit of attacking the left-wing politics and the political correctness that have become such a staple of the modern academy.