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buzz, buzz, buzz.
Feb. 21st, 2006 01:26 pmedit: it's now official. summers resigns. all staff received an email not five minutes ago with links to his letter to the community announcing his resignation and the letter from the harvard board accepting his resignation.
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everyone at work is a-buzz about president summers, who will most likely resign by the end of the week. all the media outlets have been full of speculation for a while now, and now it is certain. or almost certain.
i don't feel particularly jubilant or positive about a change in leadership, despite my feelings about the controversy he stirred up with his comments last spring about women in science. reports of his managerial style and method of suppressing dissent via aggressive 'inviting' of dissent have made me more angry than anything else. he is arrogant, but then again, who isn't arrogant at harvard? the faculty voting him out certainly are -- perhaps that's why it's difficult to support either side fully.
then there is the new construction in allston, and the coming university campaign -- how will those things fare with a change in leadership? it just seems to me that now that the obvious knee-jerk solution to the initial women-in-science situation will happen, it doesn't seem like the right solution at all.
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everyone at work is a-buzz about president summers, who will most likely resign by the end of the week. all the media outlets have been full of speculation for a while now, and now it is certain. or almost certain.
i don't feel particularly jubilant or positive about a change in leadership, despite my feelings about the controversy he stirred up with his comments last spring about women in science. reports of his managerial style and method of suppressing dissent via aggressive 'inviting' of dissent have made me more angry than anything else. he is arrogant, but then again, who isn't arrogant at harvard? the faculty voting him out certainly are -- perhaps that's why it's difficult to support either side fully.
then there is the new construction in allston, and the coming university campaign -- how will those things fare with a change in leadership? it just seems to me that now that the obvious knee-jerk solution to the initial women-in-science situation will happen, it doesn't seem like the right solution at all.
