UPDATE: Summers Resigns; writes that battles with FAS faculty made it “infeasible” to lead
Harvard President will step down by next Tuesday
University President Lawrence H. Summers is expected to resign in advance of next Tuesday’s full Faculty meeting, the Wall Street Journal reported on page A3 this morning, citing two anonymous sources “familiar with the situation.”
Harvard officials and professors close to the president could not confirm the report of Summersâ?? imminent departure. â??I have heard nothing,â? said the dean of the Graduate School of Design, Alan A. Altshuler, a prominent Summers supporter. The dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Joseph B. Martin, also said, â??I have no information.â?Â
What an embarrassment for Harvard University. They are about to drive Larry Summers from his job as president. His sin, questioning their monolithic worldview.
Larry Summers is no member of the vast right wing conspiracy. He is a mainstream, moderate democrat. The far left radicals are in control of the party in Washington, online with the Kos Crazies and on elite college campuses all across America.
What does it say about the mindset of those running Harvard that someone like Larry Summers is so unacceptable and offensive? It is simply pathetic.
Elite college campuses are the most close minded institutions in America. Diversity is all about skin color. Diversity of thought and opinion is not encouraged. In fact, it is actively discouraged. In this case, it is run off campus at the highest levels of the institution.
Harvard should consider a name change to Moonbat University.
Here is Judge Richard Posner writing on his blog about the Larry Summers controversy,
Today in the United States, most of the leading research universities are dominated by persons well to the left of Larry Summers, and they don’t take kindly to having their ideology challenged, as Summers has now learned to his grief. There is nothing to be done about this, and thoughtful conservatives should actually be pleased. As John Stuart Mill pointed out in On Liberty, when one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens. Not being pressed to come up with arguments or evidence to support them, one forgets the arguments and fails to obtain the evidence. One’s position becomes increasingly flaccid, producing the paradox of thought that is at once rigid and flabby. And thus the academic left today.