archenemy blog

Amid rumors that Summers will resign before next tuesday’s faculty meeting (at which another no-confidence vote is possible), The Crimson reports:

While disaffection with Summers has been widespread throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, leaders of several other schools are expressing their admiration for the embattled president.

Wait… there’s more to Harvard than the FAS?

Althsuler, the Design dean, said that Summers “has been an extraordinarily effective president.”

“I think this has played out to date as an internal FAS matter as if Larry were the president of FAS.”

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Altshuler said he was contacted by a Corporation member earlier this month who sought his views on Summers. But the Corporation’s limited probe of professors’ opinions might not have extended beyond the dean level at non-FAS schools. Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said in a phone interview Sunday: “I don’t know that any Law School people have been contacted.”

Asked why he hasn’t sought out Corporation members himself, Dershowitz said: “Nobody ever told me the secret handshake. I would be delighted to talk to anyone in the Corporation, but I wouldn’t know how to begin a call. They darn well ought to be talking to people beyond the Arts and Sciences unless this University is going to become beholden to one faculty.”

So the Law School, the Kennedy School, the School of Dental Medicine, and the Graduate School of Design, at a minium, are all wondering what the fuss is about? More proof that you get what you want by acting out in the most extreme way possible. I’m surprised they aren’t literally calling for his head.

Sigh.

It’s official. Yet another reason to favor Yale.