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Newspapers Agree: Harvard Might Want a Woman. But Does a Woman Want Harvard?
Tweet Share on Facebook January 8, 2007 CommentThe next Harvard president could be a woman, report the New York Times and the Harvard Crimson, in nearly identical stories today, both of which cite a December Crimson report that one list of contenders included at least five women. Among that list: the female presidents of three other Ivy League universities--all of whom have said they are not interested in the job.
The statements are hard to take seriously, the Times concluded, citing the wisdom of a Harvard professor who studies higher education. "It's not different from Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama," the professor told the Times. "There's a certain coyness."
But has Clinton ever told her board of trustees, as the University of Pennsylvania's Amy Gutmann did in December, that she has--"for the last time...absolutely" no interest? Has Barack Obama ever said he has "no interest" in any job other than his Senate post, and called it "the best job in the world" (Shirley M. Tilghman of Princeton, in September)? Or that he "look[s] forward to welcoming" someone else as president (Ruth J. Simmons, of Brown, in September)?
That said, some of the female candidates have not said no. Keep your eye on Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School--the same position from which current interim president Derek Bok first took Harvard's top job. Kagan just got a popular curricular reform passed, the Crimson reported earlier this year .
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It's Like a Pulitzer or an Oscar, Maybe?
Tweet Share on Facebook January 8, 2007 CommentLooks like voting for the first-ever Paper Trail Awards will start tomorrow! Winners will be announced next week. Come back and vote! We promise some women will be on our nominee list, too--whether they like it or not.
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Because Even Your Kid Brother Has a Tattoo
Tweet Share on Facebook January 8, 2007 CommentKeep an eye on a gross new trend at Ohio State. Or is branding your body with hot irons really new? A professor tells the Daily Lantern that the tradition has been around since at least 1850. (And some members of historically black fraternities have done it for decades.)
"Oddly enough, after all the complaining I did, I'd like to try different methods of branding," says one initiate. "I'd like strike branding because it's more traditional. It's supposed to be the single most intense form of branding."