MassNews Archives Will Help Readers Better Understand Harvard Story
          The large number of readers who viewed our story on the forced resignation of President Summers at Harvard yesterday, forced us to rethink how we welcome visitors to our Archives. (There now are 75,000-100,000 “unique visitors” coming to our daily site.)
          Although the radical faculty members appeared to be the only ones on campus who do not like Pres. Summers, they (with the protection of tenure) were successful in forcing him out yesterday to the consternation of students and others.
          After much pondering, we’ve determined that the best way for us to help readers find additional archived articles from MassNews that will allow them to understand the two serious mistakes made at the outset of Summers’ appointment, is to do so in the body of our article. We would like to know if this is helpful.
            These are the mistakes by Pres. Summers that led to his downfall.

            Capitulating to Jesse Jackson, who was the prime advocate for black professor, Cornel West.
              We first wrote about Pres. Summers when expressing our concern over his capitulation to the black professor, Cornel West. We forecast that it was a mistake which the faculty would equate with weakness on his part.
            This is found in four important articles in the archives of MassNews, all of which are from the print edition. (The print edition is no longer published because we’re now well known and have reverted to our original concept of publishing only an Internet daily newspaper, which is obviously the wave of the future. We began with our Internet site in 1997.)
              --- Our wrap-up  article about the Harvard President was titled: “Globe Blackmails Harvard President,” and was published in the February 2002 issue of the monthly print edition. We wrote: “The Boston Globe successfully blackmailed the new President of Harvard, Lawrence H. Summers, last month into endorsing quotas and affirmative action.” Our article then recited how this was accomplished, including eight articles printed in all sections of the Globe from Dec. 22 to Jan. 4 before the final success article appeared on its front page on Jan. 5: “Harvard dispute declared settled; Black professors still eyeing options.
              --- The initial articles we wrote were about the Globe’s coverage of the event. We wrote: “Harvard story caused furor across country; Globe backmails Harvard President.”
              --- We explained in a sidebar how the well-known conservative, black Professor at Stanford, Shelby Steele, received the most attention with the following prediction which has just come true in 2006, “As a result of Summers’ failure to stand his ground, all of us have suffered.”
            --- Another sidebar was: “Globe’s uproar about Harvard helped Jesse Jackson.”  It told how a fax from Jesse Jackson to the Globe resulted in continuing headlines in the Globe until Jackson finally arrived in Cambridge with Al Sharpton to this headline in the Globe: “2 black leaders confront Harvard.”

          Not speaking out against special benefits given to women faculty only because they were women.
           We also published articles by Judith S. Kleinfeld, a feminist professor with ties to Harvard, who wrote that women science professors in Cambridge were being given unfair advantages just because they were women. She believed that this type of conduct would eventually hurt all women.
              The final item that pushed Summers out of Harvard this week, according to the Globe, was “international outrage,” when Summers “speculated at an economics conference that innate differences between men and women might be one of the reasons women lag behind in science and math careers.”
              Although many are saying that the students are much more modern in 2006 than the faculty who are still stuck in the sixties, this did not help President Summers in that he lost the battle at the outset when he unwisely tried to mollify his faculty instead of staying-the-course like Pres. Silber did at Boston University.
              We broke our rules when we printed articles by Prof. Kleinfeld that had previously appeared in many conservative  publications. We did so because of her important message and because her writing was clear and concise.
              She had received her bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and her doctorate from Harvard and had strong family ties to Harvard. Her husband’s career had brought her to Alaska where she was professor of psychology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Her report, "The Myth That Schools Shortchange Girls," changed the national debate on gender and education and was the subject of articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Psychology Today and other publications. She was an active member of the Independent Women’s Forum, with which we were close.