Bye, Havard

It is Google News that let me first heard/saw of Mr. Summers when looking through its news tiltle webpage. At that time he just made a public speech and accidently (wrongly) expressed his views on those female faculty members in Havard University, so it is understandable that he had caught so many spotlights from the sceptic American medias. It's a pity that he's resigned and is going to step down as when I heard of Mr. Summers the second time. Lois Romano of Washington Post reported the story:

Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard University, announced yesterday that he will resign his post, bringing to close a stormy tenure in which the former Treasury secretary made impolitic remarks about women, alienated many black professors and repeatedly clashed with the faculty at America's most prominent university.

Summers decided to step down last week after concluding that he could no longer contain the growing conflict being played out publicly while effectively running the university.

"I looked at the extent to which the rancor had emerged in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and I personally had become a larger issue and concluded very reluctantly that the agenda for the university I cared about and my own satisfaction would be best served by stepping down," Summers, 51, said from his office in Cambridge, Mass., in a 45-minute conference call with reporters.

His resignation takes effect at the end of the academic year. Derek Bok, 75, who served as Harvard's president for 20 years, was named interim president. Summers said yesterday that he will return to the school as an economics professor after a year-long sabbatical.

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