Faust Around the Media World
Of course not. There is a lot of work still to be done, especially in the sciences.
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Drew Faust, asked yesterday whether her appointment meant the end of "sexual inequities" at Harvard
All the reports have been "gender, gender, gender," and I'm thinking to myself, "Isn't that funny? That has not been something we've talked about at all."
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Harvard Corporation fellow Robert ReischauerI’ve had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
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Faust, on what her mother would be thinking now
I believe Faust will bring dignity and honor back to Harvard.
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Harry LewisThe selection of Dr. Drew Faust for the Harvard post is being described as a sharp rebuff of her predecessor, Lawrence Summers, who had angered women by presuming to disagree with them. But so far as we can tell, Dr. Faust has demonstrated competence only in Women's Studies and gender linguistics, not in math and science. Advantage Summers....
—The American Spectator
[Faust] is going to have to be outstanding [because] people see it as a knee-jerk reaction to the comments made by President Summers.
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Harvard graduate student Lydia BarlowIn that [southern] world, said one of Dr. Faust's brothers, M. Tyson Gilpin Jr., 63, a lawyer in Clarke County, his sister did some of what was expected of her: She raised a beef cow....
—DailyIndia.com
She was chosen after a search in which a number of potential candidates said they were not interested in the job....
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Canada.com
Drew Faust, the historian who has been named Harvard's first female president, has been praised for her "people skills," but she's also done brilliant intellectual work on a crucial question for our time: why we love war....Faust's interpretation helps explain the way the US responded to the 9-11 terrorist attacks with a war on Iraq. "Even a war against an enemy who had no relationship to September 11's terrorist acts would do," she notes. People supported war not just because of the rational arguments offered by the White House, but also "because the nation required the sense of meaning, intention, and goal-directedness, the lure of efficacy that war promises." It was especially necessary to restore a sense of control after the terrorism of 9-11 had "obliterated" it. The US, she concludes, "needed the sense of agency that operates within the structure of narrative provided by war."...Harvard's last president, Larry Summers, had been a Clinton administration free trade policy wonk. By choosing as its new president a scholar whose work has so much depth and significance, the university suggests a different sense of what intellectual leadership might mean.
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History News NetworkLadies, perhaps you, too, feel vaguely uncomfortable, even embarrassed for your sex during this 24/7 cartoon coverage of Anna Nicole Smith. ....But do not despair, sisters. There was another side of the spectrum this weekend....
First, Drew Gilpin Faust, expected to become the first female president in the 371-year history of Harvard University, which ditched its last president, Larry Summers, after he questioned women’s academic ability in math and science.
Here’s why I’m loving this: because it’s Harvard and everybody knows Harvard. Because Harvard matters. Because little girl Faust, recognizing a man’s world, changed her name from Catherine to Drew. Because though none of the stories I saw this week mentioned it, she happens to have a husband (Harvard professor Charles Rosenberg), two daughters and a stepdaughter. So even with family obligations, she managed to climb to the pinnacle of the vicious publish-or-perish academic world.
Critics fretted over Faust’s “toughness,” as critics always do when in comes to women leaders. I guess she’s tough enough....
—Marjorie Egan, the Boston Herald
Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard’s first female president, seems never to have offended anyone and has a much lower Google profile than the ousted Larry Summers. A Google search for “Drew Gilpin Faust” brings up just a handful of scholarly references, none of which are available in full text on the Web. One of her books is available currently at amazon and the two readers who bothered to comment are blandly unimpressed: “This book is rather tedious if you are not a fan nor speaker of that odd language known as academia ” and “probably only a woman interested in the history of women would be interested. The entire book is very…well, womanly.” An older book earns two out of five stars: “jargon-laden prose makes this one a sleeper”.
To judge by the Amazon reviews and the Google search, we are in for some quieter times here in Cambridge....
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Phillip Greenspun's weblog (Greenspun is a student at HLS)
According to the Times story, she appears to have been a compromise candidate lacking in big-administration experience. She does have the most important qualification of all, however: she's a female woman....
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RedState.com
