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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucilaw13sep13,0,5893599.story
[considering what LSUMMERS was booted for, as BDELONG says "Why does
MDRAKE still have a job?"
\_ Right Wing Political Correctness run amok.
\_ Political Correctness run amok.
\- speaking of LSUMMERS:
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/09/unclear-on-the-.html
\- speaking of LSUMMERS and UC:
http://tinyurl.com/2kvadz |
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| www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucilaw13sep13,0,5893599.story California | Local News Myung J Chun / LAT FAME: Erwin Chemerinsky is one of the best-known experts on constitutional law. UC Irvine reverses field on Chemerinsky Fame Myung J Chun / LAT FAME: Erwin Chemerinsky is one of the best-known experts on constitutional law. The constitutional scholar says university officials told him the deal was off to head the new school because he was too politically controversial. By Garrett Therolf and Henry Weinstein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers 9:48 PM PDT, September 12, 2007 IRVINE, Calif. Erwin Chemerinsky, a well-known liberal expert on constitutional law, said he had signed a contract Sept. click to enlarge Later Wednesday, however, Drake said there had been no outside pressure and that he had decided to reject Chemerinsky, now of Duke University and formerly of the University of Southern California, because he felt the law professor's commentaries were "polarizing" and would not serve the interests of California's first new public law school in 40 years. News of Drake's decision quickly came made its way through academic and legal circles nationally where it came under criticism from liberals and conservatives scholars who said Chemerinsky was being unfairly penalized. "It seems late in the day to notice to Erwin Chemerinsky is a prominent liberal," said John Jeffries, University of Virginia Law School dean. It's rather like discovering that Wilt Chamberlain was tall. Drake said he worried that the controversy had the potential to harm the university's reputation. "It was the most difficult decision of my career," he said in an emotional interview, his voice at times quivering. Legal academics said Chemerinsky's sacking could make it difficult for UCI to attract a top-flight dean, students and faculty. Douglas Kmiec, a prominent conservative constitutional law professor at Pepperdine Law School in Malibu, called the development "a tremendous setback for UC Irvine. It is a profound mistake in my judgment to have obtained the services of one of the most respected, most talented teachers of the Constitution in the United States and to turn him away on the specious ground that he is too liberal or too progressive. That is a betrayal of everything a law school should stand for." Chemerinsky and Drake agreed the new dean's dismissal was motivated in part by an Aug. In it, Chemerinsky asserted that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was "about to adopt an unnecessary and mean-spirited regulation that will make it harder for those on death row to have their cases reviewed in federal court." But Drake and Chemerinsky split sharply on what role the article played in the decision to fire the incoming dean and whether academic freedom was at stake. "Shouldn't we as academics be able to stand up for people on death row?" Drake said "we had talked to him in June about writing op-ed pieces and that he would have to focus on things like legal education in this new role, and then here comes another political piece. Chemerinsky, one of the nation's best known constitutional scholars will remain a professor at Duke University in Durham, NC He said he had lined up a board of advisers for the new school, including the deans of the UC Berkeley and University of Virginia law schools and three federal judges, including Andrew Guilford, a Bush appointee from Orange County. Chemerinsky said Drake told him during a meeting Tuesday at the Sheraton Hotel near the Raleigh-Durham airport that "concerns" had emerged from the University of California Regents, which would have had to approve the appointment. The professor said Drake told him that he thought there would have been a "bloody battle" over the appointment. I told a couple people that I was worried and that this might be controversial, but no one called me and said I should do anything." Chemerinsky has been a professor at Duke since 2004, after 21 years at the USC law school. Times staff writer Richard C Paddock contributed to this report. Post Comment Name Enter your comments and post to forum Submit Discussion Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation's best known constitutional scholars and a professor at Duke University, has been told he was too "politically controversial" to head UCI's new law school. The university lost a world-class scholar to political pressure. Drake should resign and tell the whole story in his resignation letter. Submitted by: Cindy 9:27 AM PDT, Sep 14, 2007 2 Drake either lied to Chemerinsky and the search committee in saying there was conservative pressure, or lied to Irvine's faculty senate yesterday in saying there was no conservative pressure. If there was pressure it seems not to have come from the UC regents, Donald Bren or the OC legal community--then from whom? He has shown poor leadership, has jeopardized the reputation of the university, lost the confidence of its faculty, and should resign. Submitted by: member of the faculty 9:22 AM PDT, Sep 14, 2007 3 I hear Monica Goodling is looking for a job. |
| delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/09/unclear-on-the-.html Felix Salmon Is Unhappy About Those Who Write for GM September 16, 2007 Unclear on the Concept of the University Let me 100% endorse what Alex Tabarrok has to say. A university is a social institution in which people are supposed to think and then speak without fear or favor. Erwin Chemerinsky, a well-known liberal expert on constitutional law, said he had signed a contract Sept. Now this: After a group of UC Davis women faculty began circulating a petition, UC regents rescinded an invitation to Larry Summers, the controversial former president of Harvard University, to speak at a board dinner Wednesday night in Sacramento. Unclear on the Concept of the University: Comments yeah, the chemerinsky thing is appalling. the summers thing i think is annoying, but on a much smaller scale. but there's a non-sequitur in this part: "A university is a social institution in which people are supposed to think and then speak without fear or favor." from that it does not follow that a university is a social institution which should invite just anybody and everybody to speak. of course they are not equivalent to an institutional endorsement of point of view. but they are closer to an honorary degree, ie an institutional endorsement of significance and merit. my point is just: i can imagine some administrator at a university inviting someone entirely ridiculous to come speak. and i can imagine the rest of the university saying: no. not a good use of our time, not a good use of our resources, not a good use of our prestige. i mean, sure, anyone can speak their mind in any public place, even david duke, standing in the middle of harlem. university members should be able to speak their mind within their university. but those two thoughts do not entail that columbia university must invite david duke to speak on their campus, or that if an invitation does go out to him by mistake, that the university is not within its rights to retract it. so i just think that the issues involved in inviting speakers from outside the campus are a little more complicated than is captured by saying that "a university is a place where people speak without fear or favor." luckily, the chemerinsky case involves so many more horrendous issues--up to and including firing without cause--that we can agree about the big stuff. September 16, 2007 at 07:39 PM Well not that the two can't both be appalling, but the "Summers thing" is much worse than the "Chemerinsky thing." One is indicative of a particular Dean's mindset, the another is indicative of the overreach of Modern Feminism. I much prefer the philosophies of the Wendy Kaminers and Nadine Strossens of the ACLU that celebrates and defends speech, opinions, and ideas over the philosophies of those that believe it is acceptable to shutdown a person's speech merely because he dissents with their opinion. com/TheFreeForAll/ and is a founder I believe of The Fire, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. She used to write for Salon, but in recent years, Salon has gotten much more orthodox, politically correct, rigid, and mainstream in their writings on feminism, which is to say, boring and irrelevant. September 16, 2007 at 08:27 PM I can't keep score without a program, so I'm forced back on memory: Mario Savio's famous sign, "FUCK." Kerr was of course a liberal, a meritocrat, and a servant of the corporate order -- all the sorts of things that are very fashionable these days. But, hmmm, doesn't that particular flower-scented path lead you to Vietnam and Iraq? Apology to non-Berkeley people: Clark Kerr was the famously utilitarian President of UC Berkeley back in the late fifties or early sixties. He expanded the budget like crazy (thanks to Jerry Brown's father in large part), built what was already a great university into a bigger great university, and managed to get pretty much everything wrong as he did so. "Well not that the two can't both be appalling, but the "Summers thing" is much worse than the "Chemerinsky thing." One is indicative of a particular Dean's mindset, the another is indicative of the overreach of Modern Feminism." The Chemerinsky thing is much worse - it is rescinding a high-level appointment that has been through the academic vetting process, because of political pressure from a donor. This is the nightmare scenario for many UC faculty who have been paranoid (with some reason) about the pernicious influence of big private money on the campuses. I don't regard the Summers issue as infringing upon academic freedom, since the UC Regents don't themselves operate under academic rules. They are almost all political appointees, and with the exception of the occasional ex-officio member from the hoi polloi (the student member of the Board or the odd Democratic politician) are members of a relatively conservative elite. Furthermore, I've yet to see anyone articulate a substantive reason for Summers speaking to the Regents having to do with UC business before the Board. If they want to rub elbows with another one of their ilk, let them do it on their own time. Comments: Preview Post About Brad DeLong From Brad DeLong * My Berkeley Schedule: Fall 2007: It is mid-fall. I will push office hours back to 1:00-3:00 on Tuesdays in Evans 601. Otherwise I will be in and out: calling 925 708 0467 or emailing for an appointment at an alternate time is likely to produce the best results if you can't make Tuesday just after lunch. Contribute to Funding This Weblog * Comment Policy: A Seminar, Not a Foodfight: Trolling comments get deleted, usually--I don't have time to moderate this properly, but I am trying to keep it a seminar discussion rather than a foodfight. About Brad DeLong * J Bradford DeLong is a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, chair of its political economy major, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and was in the Clinton administration a deputy assistant secretary of the US Treasury. His best work extends from business cycle dynamics through economic growth, behavioral finance, political economy, economic history, international finance to the history of economic thought and other topics. |
| tinyurl.com/2kvadz -> www.davisenterprise.com/articles/2007/09/14/news/114new1.txt UC yanks speaker's invitation: Controversial ex-Harvard president was scheduled to address regents Wednesday By Sharon Stello/Enterprise staff writer After a group of UC Davis women faculty began circulating a petition, UC regents rescinded an invitation to Larry Summers, the controversial former president of Harvard University, to speak at a board dinner Wednesday night in Sacramento. The dinner comes during the regents' meeting at UCD next week. Summers gained notoriety for saying that innate differences between men and women could be a reason for under-representation of women in science, math and engineering. "The regents' dinners have always been informal, social occasions," said UC spokesman Trey Davis. Summers talked yesterday, and agreed that UC would locate a different speaker. Susan Kennedy, the governor's chief of staff, has this morning graciously agreed to speak at the dinner." Blum, chairman of the UC Board of Regents, was out of the country on business and unavailable for comment. UCD professor Maureen Stanton, one of the petition organizers, was delighted by news of the change this morning, saying it's "a move in the right direction." "UC has an enormous historical commitment to diversity within its faculty ranks, but still has a long way to go before our faculty adequately represent the diversity of our constituency, the people of California," said Stanton, professor and chairwoman of the section of evolution and ecology. When Stanton heard about the initial invitation to Summers, she was "stunned." "I was appalled that someone articulating that point of view would be invited by the regents," she said. "This is a symbolic invitation and a symbolic measure that I believe sends the wrong message about the University of California and its cultural principles." Stanton and other women on campus began circulating a petition Tuesday night by e-mail to colleagues at several campuses in the UC system. In two days, they had collected more than 150 signatures. The petition states that "this invitation is not only misguided but inappropriate at a time when the university is searching for a new president and continues to build and diversify its community." "The regents represent the leadership and public face of the University of California," the petition states. "Inviting a keynote speaker who has come to symbolize gender and racial prejudice in academia conveys the wrong message to the university community and to the people of California. It is our fervent hope that the regents will rescind this invitation and seek advice elsewhere." Davis, the UC spokesman, said the regents gather for an informal dinner after the Wednesday session of each bimonthly board meeting. The current dinner format, featuring a guest speaker, was established three years ago, he said. The regents have typically invited distinguished faculty from the campuses to speak about their research fields and other topics of interest. This year, the regents have also extended invitations to national figures to address major issues facing higher education. University of Miami President Donna Shalala spoke at the July dinner in Santa Barbara and Summers was invited to speak next week, Davis said. He said the speaker invitations are made by the regents' chair. The campuses provide recommendations about possible speakers from among their faculty, but the chairman makes the selection. For the July and September dinners, Blum invited university presidents from outside UC. Summers, who resigned as Harvard president last year, created controversy in 2002 by attacking the scholarship and teaching of noted African-American studies professor Cornel West, which contributed to his decision to leave the Harvard faculty. In January 2005, Summers made controversial comments at the National Bureau of Economics Research Conference on Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce. There, he attributed the under-representation of women in science, math and engineering to, among other things, the "relatively clear evidence" that men and women differ in "overall IQ, mathematical ability (and) scientific ability." As the petition points out, the Boston Globe reported that Summers' actions as Harvard president matched his controversial words. Between his appointment in 2001 and his comments at the NBER conference, the number of women offered tenure in the arts and science faculty at Harvard declined dramatically. 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