After seeing your comment, I went and read what Wikipedia had to say about that incident.
I’d heard about Summers’ resignation only at some remove, and only really from bloggers who had opinions on one side or the other on the women-in-science issue. As a result, I hadn’t known that there were other contributing factors to Summers’ resignation besides that one. It seems that there were — including other conflicts with the faculty … and a corruption scandal involving Russia’s post-Soviet privatization program that led to Harvard paying a $26.5 million settlement to the Federal government.
I guess that goes to show the consequences of getting news from partisan sources. The rest of the story is substantially less exciting to folks who care about the “Social Justice vs. Political Incorrectness” Blue-Green war, though, so it’s no surprise it didn’t get as much press.
After seeing your comment, I went and read what Wikipedia had to say about that incident.
I’d heard about Summers’ resignation only at some remove, and only really from bloggers who had opinions on one side or the other on the women-in-science issue. As a result, I hadn’t known that there were other contributing factors to Summers’ resignation besides that one. It seems that there were — including other conflicts with the faculty … and a corruption scandal involving Russia’s post-Soviet privatization program that led to Harvard paying a $26.5 million settlement to the Federal government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Summers#President_of_Harvard
I guess that goes to show the consequences of getting news from partisan sources. The rest of the story is substantially less exciting to folks who care about the “Social Justice vs. Political Incorrectness” Blue-Green war, though, so it’s no surprise it didn’t get as much press.
Of course it didn’t end there...