UC to Harvard: Drop Dead

by Hal Parker | September 17, 2007 at 1:28 pm

UC to Harvard: Drop DeadLarry Summers, former Treasury Secretary, Harvard's king-in-exile, and legendary sexist, just can't catch a break. Asked to give a talk to the UC Board of Regents, Summers was unceremoniously un-asked after a group of UC faculty totally bitched out the Regents with a petition and stuff.

According to the SF Chronicle, Professor Maureen Stanton, Chair of the Department of Evolution and Ecology (and Harvard Ph.D.), pronounced herself, "appalled and stunned that someone like Summers would even be invited to speak to the regents." The petition (which she authored) states in addition:

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

A symbol of gender and racial prejudice? Ouch, Larry.

For what it's worth, you have an open invitation to address the Regents of Ivygate.

After the jump: the Chronicle article, somewhat abridged.
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