Wednesday, September 19th 2007
UC Regents cancel Lawrence Summers
In a decision that affects none of us, the Regents decided to cancel Summers, former Harvard President from speaking at a dinner party they were planning according to this blog (article here). In case he’s faded from memory already, Summers made some comments at a Harvard event about how men and women are different in their intellectual abilities, and what that might mean for academia. Everyone got mad and he caved to the feminists and retracted his statements. When the Regents found out he was coming, a petition went around and they decided Summers had to go becase he “has come to symbolize gender and racial prejudice in academia.”
The post’s author, John Leo says
This is the most devastating charge that can be leveled in a university setting, since the modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else, apart from canceling speakers who think improper thoughts about race and gender.
Go diversity! Let’s embrace it by all thinking the same things!
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-bernstein19sep19,0,3857623.story?coll=la-opinion-center
The above LA times editorial I think best describes the hypocrisy in the while UC system.
Comment by Greg S — 9/19/2007 @ 6:12 pm
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/07/09/ahmadinejad.html
“Go diversity! Let’s embrace it by all thinking the same things!”
I love you Megan
Comment by dontworryMegan — 9/20/2007 @ 12:16 am