Andrew Golis

or, as UC member Jason Lurie put it in an email to the UC list: “Faculty tells Summers to suck it.” The vote was 218-185 with 18 abstentions. The article is here. I’ll get Matt to give me a first hand account of what it was like later tonight when he gets back.

I’m not sure this means much more than a black eye. It would unfortunately set a dangerous precedent if the faculty was able to exert direct control over who is President. Many progressive-types want the faculty to have that control, but I can think of a lot of scenarios in which you want the President to be able to ignore them and go ahead with pushing something unpopular.

What do you think? Should Larry step down on his own accord? Should the Coorperation (a scary shadowy group of rich white dudes who run the world and this University (i’m not even kidding)) fire him?

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