A seldom-updated blog about labor and universities and sometimes other stuff
Monday, August 1, 2005
So it turns out Conrad Harper resigned because the rest of the Harvard Corporation wanted, after a no confidence vote from the faculty, to reprimand Larry Summers for his rousing odes to eugenics by, uh, giving him a %3 raise. Meanwhile no one on the Yale corporation seems thus far capable of the show of scruples necessary to make plain the discontent (which they, granted, seem not to possess) with Levin's own callous indifference cum vituperative vehemence towards the academic workers who make his presidency and his university work, contributing to the starkly gendered hierarchies in fields like psychology and political science which, as GESO argued in February, are as unnaceptable as Summers' comments.
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