The Beat Goes On The Harvard faculty will be discussing the circumstances of Conrad Harper's resignation from the Harvard Corporation at its meeting next week, the Crimson reports.

J. Lorand Matory, the anthropologist who initiated the vote of no confidence in Larry Summers last spring, is also responsible for putting this conversation on the faculty meeting agenda.

Good for Matory. Though I sometimes differ with his politics, I admire him for having the guts to continue to initiate important discussions at Harvard. With the Board of Overseers irrelevant (by its own lack of initiative) and the Corporation in the president's pocket, the faculty has to step up. A member of the Harvard Corporation resigned over the summer, calling on the university president to resign. What happens? Nothing. That is a failure on the part of Harvard's constitutional system. Whatever the outcome of this discussion, it needs to be held, and publicly.  ¶ 8:32 AM