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Two years ago, Students for Humane and Responsible Economics (SHARE) gathered over 700 signatures on a petition for an introductory course proposed by Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin ’59 that would offer, Marglin said, a “more balanced perspective of views.â?...
But the release of the transcript only sharpened the lines of debate on campus, as a group of professors circulated a petition supporting Summers’ leadership and pledging to affirm confidence in him if it should come to a vote in the following meeting.
Terry and former Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 formed the campaign after learning that Harvard had doubled its shares in PetroChina during the final quarter of 2004, even in the face of widespread anger over the investment. By February, over 80 professors and 600 students...
According to Glazer, UC leaders on the executive board presented him with a petition for Nichols’ impeachment on May 9 and Nichols was asked to choose whether to resign or face the impeachment process, requiring a two-thirds majority vote at the UC general meeting that night.
A pro-Summers website, studentsforlarry.org, garnered 647 signatures from students and alumni across all of Harvard’s 10 schools, while an online petition started by the Coalition for an Anti-Sexist Harvard calling for Summers resignation garnered just 114 signatures, including non-Harvard affiliates.