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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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Buh-bye, Larry...
1 posted on 02/09/2007 7:51:25 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou

Lisa Nowak?


2 posted on 02/09/2007 7:52:55 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: Froufrou

Will she get a plane?


3 posted on 02/09/2007 7:55:28 AM PST by whatexit
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Board of Overseers? Now there is a loaded, non-PC moniker. How could that one pass Rev. Jackson by? A "golden" opportunity for the right race card player.


4 posted on 02/09/2007 7:55:54 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Prevent Glo-Ball Warming ... turn out the sun when not in use)
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Faust, eh?

Boy, I'm curious about the details of that contract...

"What a bargain!"


5 posted on 02/09/2007 7:56:13 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat (Rudy Giuliani-Fred Thompson in '08!)
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To: Froufrou

Guess which one is Drew Gilpin Faust
6 posted on 02/09/2007 7:56:35 AM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: NonValueAdded

? It's a common name for a Board of Trustees. What's wrong with it?


7 posted on 02/09/2007 7:56:35 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: Froufrou

Hopefully it will be Hillary!...so we won't have to deal with her.


8 posted on 02/09/2007 7:56:40 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Froufrou

Hervard


9 posted on 02/09/2007 7:57:07 AM PST by righteousindignation
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To: 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.

Recommended by Mephistopheles, no doubt.

Regards, Ivan

10 posted on 02/09/2007 7:57:07 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: Froufrou

That was a forgone conclusion. They were ready do to anything to appease the vicious fire-spitting feminazis that caused them to get rid of the evil MALE president.


11 posted on 02/09/2007 7:57:09 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (leftism is caused by a sharp blow to the head by a pointed object)
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To: yankeedame

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! :)


12 posted on 02/09/2007 7:57:32 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: BenLurkin; All

Thailand?


13 posted on 02/09/2007 7:59:07 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! :)"


I actually find her quite attractive.

Now, where did i leave my glasses ...


14 posted on 02/09/2007 7:59:14 AM PST by Muentzer2005
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To: NonValueAdded
Board of Overseers? Now there is a loaded, non-PC moniker. How could that one pass Rev. Jackson by? A "golden" opportunity for the right race card player.

But the focus groups preferred it over "Mephistopheles"...

15 posted on 02/09/2007 7:59:19 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat (Rudy Giuliani-Fred Thompson in '08!)
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To: linda_22003

Oh, and just to head off the NEXT inevitable favorite observation by Freepers:

"Faust is married to Charles E. Rosenberg, Monrad Professor of History of Science at Harvard University. Rosenberg is one of the nation's leading historians of medicine. Faust and Rosenberg have two daughters."


16 posted on 02/09/2007 7:59:40 AM PST by linda_22003
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Surrrprrriiiisse -- surprise!

17 posted on 02/09/2007 8:00:22 AM PST by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: linda_22003

she's not ugly but you sound very angry


18 posted on 02/09/2007 8:00:31 AM PST by righteousindignation
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To: MadIvan; PBRSTREETGANG; yankeedame

Thanks to YD for posting the photo. Uh, I think it's the man on the right that is Dr. Faust...?


19 posted on 02/09/2007 8:00:52 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! :)


You're quite welcome

20 posted on 02/09/2007 8:01:57 AM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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