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...many ways similar to the one he led three decades ago.ASCENT TO POWER“Now, after a period of readjustment and phenomenal growth,” said then-President Pusey in a speech a year before his 1971 departure, “there comes for another president an era of radically altered conditions, sharp change, and formidable obstacles.” These words could serve as a first draft for outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers’ final address. Much like Summers, Pusey was criticized for his rigid leadership style. The president of Union College, Harold C. Martin...
...helped encourage a culture of intellectual and political diversity that not only served a wide spectrum of students but meant that Harvard’s influence in the world of ideas and policy did not end as the heyday of JFK liberalism gave way to the conservative Reagan era...
...Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, “President Summers was very, very supportive of the college and of undergraduate life.”But with the exception of student leaders and a few particularly spirited undergrads, the student body has insisted on apathy throughout the Summers era. And by and large, their response to the President’s resignation has not quite been the emphatic uproar described in some of the nation’s newspapers. Maybe next time, says Undergraduate Council President John S. Haddock ’07: “It?...
...Corporation has the power to appoint, single-handedly, to the most important position at Harvard, and for the foreseeable future, it will likely retain this power in an official sense. We hope that in practice, however, as the upcoming presidential search gets underway, it marks the beginning of an era in which the Corporation endeavors to engage students and faculty in more then a token capacity, in a way deserving of those who share the Corporation’s interest in Harvard success and who have the vantage of living the Harvard experience today...
...really such a concern, then one might imagine that the Marshals and state police would find it more effective to extradite Entwistle in secret—outside of the media spotlight—and transport him to jail in an unmarked vehicle. Although it may be difficult in this era of 24-hour cable news to withhold information from the media, if President Bush was able to fly secretly to Iraq for Thanksgiving, this hardly seems too complex a task. In actuality, there can be little doubt that the whole event was consciously choreographed to appease the myriad local, national...