Well, Powerline blog said it best:
Athens on the Charles
The Harvard faculty has narrowly voted (218-185) to express "no confidence" in the leadership of Harvard President Lawrence Summers. Socrates was convicted of impiety by a roughly comparable vote of 280-220. Click here for the Harvard Crimson report, and here for the AP report.The vote essentially represents the conviction of President Summers for not believing in the gods of the city. The resolution was the handiwork of Harvard Professor of Anthropology and of African and African-American Studies J. Lorand Matory. Speaking like a true Athenian, Matory commented following the vote, "There is no noble alternative for him but resignation."
Let us now recall the words of the great Willliam F. Buckley Jr.: "I would rather be governed by the first 200 names in the Boston phone book, than by the Harvard faculty." The wisdom of Buckley's statement is proving timeless.[link]
.CRIMSON/ LAURA C. MCKIERNAN University President Lawrence H. Summers faces the media as he exits today's Faculty meeting, where the members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted that they lack confidence in his leadership
Jacques Louis David's painting, The Death of Socrates (1787).The Jewish Russian Telegraph predicts: Lawrence Summers will survive. The ladies and gentlemen of the Harvard Corporation might be cowards, but they know how to count money. Lawrence Summers has a significantly higher market value than his tormentor -- Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies, J. Lorand Matory ‘82. Professor Matory's market value is highly uncertain.
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