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Report: Harvard To Name First Woman President
FOX ^ | 02/09/07 | Unknown

Posted on 02/09/2007 7:51:24 AM PST by Froufrou

Harvard University could be about to name its first female president, as the governing board charged with vetting candidates has narrowed its search to a single one, historian Drew Gilpin Faust, according to published reports.

The Harvard Corporation was expected to recommend Faust to the school's Board of Overseers, an alumni group that has final say, at a meeting on Sunday, multiple sources told The Boston Globe and The Harvard Crimson in Friday's editions.

Both newspapers said Faust was the only remaining candidate.

"We don't comment on the search process," Harvard spokesman John Longbrake told The Associated Press early Friday.

Faust, an expert on the Civil War and the American South, has been dean of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2001 and also teaches in the history department. She has never run a major institution and did not attend Harvard, which the university usually prefers.

Faust would succeed Lawrence Summers, a former Treasury Secretary under President Clinton, who resigned in June after a five-year tenure marked by conflicts with faculty. Summers' comments two years ago that genetic differences between the genders may explain the dearth of women in top science jobs drew sharp criticism and sparked calls from some alumni for the school to name a female president.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: faust; mephistopheles; whatabargain
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

You may want to revisit Lawrence Summers info. He's the one who said - in math and science - women are stoopid.


21 posted on 02/09/2007 8:02:17 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou
Is Harvard striking a Faust-ian bargain???
22 posted on 02/09/2007 8:02:38 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Beckwith

Shazam!


23 posted on 02/09/2007 8:02:51 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: linda_22003

Yeah, that's one ugly red X.


24 posted on 02/09/2007 8:02:57 AM PST by subterfuge (Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
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To: righteousindignation

I'm not angry; just trying to pre-empt some of the favorite observations around here. :)


25 posted on 02/09/2007 8:03:44 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: yankeedame

The cheerful, white-haired lady in the middle?


26 posted on 02/09/2007 8:03:53 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It is my life's labor to bring Christ to souls and souls to Christ through word and example.")
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To: Froufrou
You may want to revisit Lawrence Summers info. He's the one who said - in math and science - women are stoopid.

Please stop spreading lies.

27 posted on 02/09/2007 8:04:35 AM PST by subterfuge (Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
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To: subterfuge

The picture showed on my connection; maybe it's your firewall or some other related problem.


28 posted on 02/09/2007 8:04:46 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: MadIvan

Well, there's at least one version of the Soldier's Chorus online:

http://www.bobandtom.com/av/free_audio/in_praise_of_colts07.mp3


29 posted on 02/09/2007 8:05:12 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat (Rudy Giuliani-Fred Thompson in '08!)
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To: Tax-chick

"The cheerful, white-haired lady in the middle?"

Apple pies for everyone at Harvard.


30 posted on 02/09/2007 8:06:15 AM PST by Muentzer2005
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To: Froufrou
He's the one who said - in math and science - women are stoopid.

Don't know if that's sarcasm but that's not what he said. He proposed the idea that the differences in high-level achievement in math and sciences between men and women may be due to inherent biological differences. Women in the audience then succumbed to the vapors!

31 posted on 02/09/2007 8:06:36 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Froufrou
I can't see the picture and I don't know the lady personally. However, this caught my attention:

She has never run a major institution and did not attend Harvard, which the university usually prefers.

Given that Lawrence Summers is her predecessor, would I be a complete conspiracy-theorist in seeing this move as "forced" at just the time when Hillary! has a real possibility at the White House?

32 posted on 02/09/2007 8:06:41 AM PST by pgyanke (Gay marriage does to real marriage what counterfeit money does to real money. - Hemogoblin)
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To: subterfuge

Your saying he didn't say it, or that you don't want me to repeat it?


33 posted on 02/09/2007 8:07:03 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: pgyanke

"Given that Lawrence Summers is her predecessor, would I be a complete conspiracy-theorist in seeing this move as "forced" at just the time when Hillary! has a real possibility at the White House?"

That's exactly what I thought, but like you I didn't want to be a conspiracy-theorist.


34 posted on 02/09/2007 8:08:09 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: subterfuge; Froufrou
One good thing that Summers accomplished was chasing Cornell West off the Harvard faculty. Granted the Great Scholar merely moved on to Princeton, but that's Princeton's problem!
35 posted on 02/09/2007 8:08:28 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: righteousindignation
"she's not ugly but you sound very angry"

She doesn'ts ound angry to me. Just pointing out the usual standard of behavior from too many of the boys...ummm....men?.... on this board.

It sucks. Big time.

36 posted on 02/09/2007 8:10:46 AM PST by Texas_shutterbug
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To: Froufrou

He DIDN'T say it and you should stop putting forth that lie. I'm sure Chrissy Matthews and Tim Russert would characterize what he said very similarly to how you did. How's that feel?


37 posted on 02/09/2007 8:11:30 AM PST by subterfuge (Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
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To: linda_22003
We have the first post pointing out that she is not beautiful, the ultimate sin for a woman as far as Freepers are concerned.

I'd bet that you have completely and totally misinterpreted the poster's intent...

38 posted on 02/09/2007 8:12:33 AM PST by Zeppo (We live in the Age of Stupidity. [Dennis Prager])
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To: Froufrou
VERITAS - Excellence and truth

Harvard's New Logo: Obedience to any and all Feminazis and Islam

39 posted on 02/09/2007 8:12:45 AM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Froufrou

Drew Gilpin Faust? Are they sure she's a woman?


40 posted on 02/09/2007 8:13:50 AM PST by nfldgirl
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