Larry Summers

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Lawrence Henry ("Larry") Summers (b. 1954) is an economist who served as the Secretary of the Treasury in the final year and a half of the Clinton administration. From there he was selected to be the 27th President of Harvard University, considered to be the top position in academia.

He served as President of Harvard from 2001 to 2006, when he was forced to resign for merely suggesting that the wide disparities between men and women in science, math and engineering may be due to innate differences in their aptitude or preference for those fields. His mere suggestion of this, delivered in a speech to academics, caused an uproar by liberals that led to his ouster.

"I felt I was going to be sick," said MIT Biology Professor Nancy Hopkins, a biology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was in attendance at Summers' speech, which was organized by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. "My heart was pounding and my breath was shallow," she said. "I was extremely upset."[1]

However, liberals since deny that as the cause of his termination, even though over a year later for the same reason they forced a rescission of an invitation for him speak to an academic audience.[2]

References

  1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19181-2005Jan18.html
  2. http://www.davisenterprise.com/articles/2007/09/14/news/114new1.txt