Amy Gutmann to Harvard: Drop Dead Amy Gutmann joins a growing list of potential Harvard presidential candidates who are saying that they don't want the job.

"I will say it, and I will say it for the last time: I am absolutely committed to being Penn's president, and I am not interested in any other presidency," Gutmann told the trustees, as reported in The Daily Pennsylvanian on Friday.

You can't really blame her. Harvard floated her name back in 2001 as a candidate for the presidency, but a number of sources have told me that she wasn't really a serious candidate—it's just that the presidential search committee needed to appear as if it were at least considering a woman.

Plus, by all accounts, she's doing a good job at Penn.

Incidentally, this news appeared in the Daily Princetonian, but not the Crimson......  ¶ 8:03 AM