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Thursday, January 20, 20051106258100
Veritas
"Harvard Chief Says His Remarks on Women Were Wrong," by Greg Frost, Reuters, http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050120/2005-01-20T161255Z_01_N20197396_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-LIFE-HARVARD-DC.html, 20 January 2005 (from Drudge).
Harvard Univeristy demonstrates that it is a university in the truest sense of the world -- it is a place for free expression of ideas, no matter how controversial.
Just kidding.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) - Harvard University President Lawrence Summers has written a lengthy apology, admitting he was wrong to suggest women do not have the same natural ability in math and sciences as men.
In his third and most repentant statement this week, the Ivy League school chief sought to make amends to faculty not just at Harvard but across the country who were offended by his remarks at a conference last Friday.
"I deeply regret the impact of my comments and apologize for not having weighed them more carefully," Summers said in a letter to the Harvard community posted on his Web site and dated Wednesday. "I was wrong to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women."
If I was snide, I would say this is great news. After all, now that Harvard University has made is clear that some speech is unacceptable, we can expect all anti-Semitic speech to end. Likewise anti-American will soon end on college campuses, because it is it an "unintended" signal of discouragement to our troops.
But that's not going to happen, so I won't say anything.
15:55 Posted by Dan tdaxp (Webmaster) in Academia, Women | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this | Tags: harvard, feminists, larry summers, genetic factors