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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: Texas_shutterbug

Thank you. And that poster obviously missed the ":)" at the end of my post. It's too bad it's so predictable, so I was hoping I could head it off.


41 posted on 02/09/2007 8:13:55 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: linda_22003
She's not that bad looking:

I am not sure what your issue is. It's kind of funny, given the Spanish meaning of your name :-)

42 posted on 02/09/2007 8:16:55 AM PST by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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To: subterfuge
"The president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, sparked an uproar at an academic conference Friday when he said that innate differences between men and women might be one reason fewer women succeed in science and math careers."

Boston Globe. 01/17/05. You're right. He did NOT specifically say "stupid." My apologies.
43 posted on 02/09/2007 8:17:27 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: yankeedame; linda_22003
"That's a MAN, baby!!"


44 posted on 02/09/2007 8:18:31 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: yankeedame

45 posted on 02/09/2007 8:19:56 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: krb

Guess I've just been around FR too long. ;-D


46 posted on 02/09/2007 8:21:25 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: Texas_shutterbug

I too attended Bryn Mawr but in those days women were not as sensitized I guess and in my environment men could think anything they wished and we were pretty secure and oblivious on beyond the romantic aspect of course. In between the Rosie the Riveters and the Gloria Steinemites were some of the good old days!! {Thanks for listening!}


47 posted on 02/09/2007 8:22:16 AM PST by righteousindignation
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To: Diogenesis; Mean Maryjean

I honestly can't tell her gender by looking unless I see her in a skirt/dress.


48 posted on 02/09/2007 8:22:51 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou

Here's hoping it's Rosie O'Doughnut-she'd be perfect for it. And they probably have benefits for same sex couples.


49 posted on 02/09/2007 8:23:42 AM PST by mrmargaritaville
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To: Froufrou

She's an Arts & Sciences type (history) and will fit right into the mold. It was the A & S faculty that forced Summers out. Summers fit like a fist in the eye. ("Faust" is German for fist but this lady will do nothing to disturb the smothering Harvard status quo.)


50 posted on 02/09/2007 8:24:00 AM PST by Malesherbes
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To: Froufrou

The dangly earrings don't help even a little? :)


51 posted on 02/09/2007 8:24:07 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: Froufrou

I'm sure her husband thinks she is beautiful.


52 posted on 02/09/2007 8:27:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: MadIvan
"Faust, an expert on the Civil War and the American South,"

Hmmm...

53 posted on 02/09/2007 8:28:36 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: linda_22003; Malesherbes

~guffaw!~ I don't like dangly earrings so maybe that's why I didn't notice them!

As you know, mine is a Liberal Arts degree.

You want fries with that?


54 posted on 02/09/2007 8:29:09 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: Mean Maryjean
The name could go either way.

Drew Carey

Drew Barrymore

It is this tendency for some families to use someone else's last name as a first name, so that a newborn baby comes out with a name that sounds like a law firm.

55 posted on 02/09/2007 8:30:14 AM PST by jmcenanly (Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: BenLurkin

I'm no beauty and I really shouldn't be so catty. Some females are 'girly-girls' and some aren't.


56 posted on 02/09/2007 8:30:53 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: linda_22003
All right! 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 knew it would make the top ten posts, I just didn't know where! :)

Good heavens what a defensive post! Does just posting a photo of someone automatically mean that her looks are being mocked? Please! Besides, she's not all that unattractive--but then again, I like the studious look.

Personally, I'm glad that Harvard is set to appoint a woman. After the phony uproar they had with their last president, it's a good reminder that the school is no longer a meritocracy but deeply PC and quota-oriented institution--just like most of academia.

American higher ed is running on stored-up capital at this point. Any institution that subordinates excellence to politics won't be able to retain its reputation for long...
57 posted on 02/09/2007 8:37:48 AM PST by Antoninus ( Who is Duncan Hunter? Find out....www.gohunter08.com)
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To: Antoninus

Another person who missed the ":)" at the end of my post.


58 posted on 02/09/2007 8:39:16 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: Froufrou
"Lawrence Summers ... said - in math and science - ... women are stoopid."

Summers did not say that. He hypothesized, at a session of an academic conference devoted to understanding why there are so few women Ph.D.s in math and *some* sciences, that women and men may have the same *average* aptitude for these subjects but that the *variance* in aptitudes is larger for men than for women. This hypothesis implies that there are fewer women in both the upper tail of the science/math aptitude distribution (presumably, where most professional mathematicians and scientists are located) and in the lower tail of the distribution, where the "stoopid" (in a math/science sense) people are. So, Summers was really saying that males, not females, are disproportionately "stoopid" in these subjects.
59 posted on 02/09/2007 8:41:45 AM PST by riverdawg
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To: linda_22003
Another person who missed the ":)" at the end of my post.

Come on, Linda. I know your posts too well at this point not to understand that the :) is just a cop out. It's like if OJ changed the title of his book to:

If I Did It :)
60 posted on 02/09/2007 8:41:51 AM PST by Antoninus ( Who is Duncan Hunter? Find out....www.gohunter08.com)
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