Eye on Harvard Weekly Roundup 9-29-07: Larry Summers PhD '82

Short InTimeTV video clip from the Eye on Harvard show on 9-29-07

From the Harvard Crimson 9-20-07

"Former President of Harvard Lawrence H. Summers was set to speak in California this week at a dinner meeting of the Regents of the University of California (UC). That is, until his invitation was abruptly cancelled.

Over 150 professors in the UC system, led by Maureen Stanton, a professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at UC-Davis, started an online petition drive to put the kibosh on Summers' impending speech. Their preposterous claim was that "inviting a keynote speaker who has come to symbolize gender and racial prejudice in academia conveys the wrong message to the university community and to the people of California."

Instead, the UC's regents have sent an altogether different message—the University of California has ceased to value academic freedom."

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