The Votes Are In...
...and it's Summers by a nose. As the
Crimson reports, Harvard graduate students rejected the vote of no-confidence by 699 to 608.
Tough to know what this vote means, if anything, which was part of the reason why some students were not entirely supportive of having it. Ninety students abstained, and 146 said they "need more information."
But certainly, when you're down, you take your victories where you can, and Summers should be pleased by this outcome.
My prediction: It won't be a day before a conservative pundit uses this vote to proclaim that the professors are more out of touch than the students, just a bunch of aging '60s radicals....
It's worth noting that the grad students also voted on the second resolution, the milder censure originally proposed by Theda Skocpol. They passed that overwhelmingly, by a vote of 945-362, with 149 abstaining and 87 saying they needed more information...
