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Opinion Coverage of President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust and the Presidential Search

By The crimson editoral board February 21, 2007

Kathleen E. Breeden

EDITORIALS		OP-EDS, COLUMNS, and COMMENTS
President Drew Gilpin Faust By THE CRIMSON STAFF Friday, February 09, 2007 5:01 AM We hope that Faust, even in the face of adversity, will have the courage to defend the right decision even when it is unpopular and the wisdom to recognize when an unpopular decision is wrong. The Search For a President Editorial Series Make the Bold Choice Harvard needs a visionary president, not a consensus pick By THE CRIMSON STAFF Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Harvard is badly in need of another Charles W. Eliot, a dreamer who will take risks and challenge the Harvard community to push itself to its limits. Knowles’ Blind Spot The gift tax is representative of a greater disregard toward student life By THE CRIMSON STAFF Wednesday, December 06, 2006 The debate over the gift tax is about more than a mere $15,000 per year. It is also a symbolic fight against the rapidly eroding interest in student life within University Hall. Harvard's Gatekeeper The next president must improve teaching and the intellectual diversity of the faculty By THE CRIMSON STAFF Friday, November 17, 2006 Harvard’s president has a hand in every tenure offer the University extends; our next president must understand the importance of this power. Educating the Educators Course evaluations must be mandated for all College classes By THE CRIMSON STAFF Wednesday, November 01, 2006 Students come to Harvard seeking an outstanding education, and many are disappointed. To the Presidential Search Committee By THE CRIMSON STAFF Friday, October 27, 2006 In a series of editorials, under the banner of “The Search for a President,” we will focus on the concrete issues that the next president will have to address. Commencement 2006 Charting a Progressive Course Bok, Knowles, and the presidential search committee should resist complacency By THE CRIMSON STAFF Wednesday, June 07, 2006 What the next president cannot—and must not—be is a merely charismatic and charming fundraiser who leaves each tub on its own bottom and lets each faculty do as it pleases. Harvard deserves more from its leader. LETTERS FEBRUAY 16, 2007 President-Elect Faust Is a Wise, Intellectual Choice Faust’s Scholarship Is Both Impressive and Relevant		Unsex Me Here! By GISELLE BARCIA , BRIGIT M. HELGEN , and JILLIAN K. SWENCIONIS Friday, February 16, 2007 Both in print and in conversation, the discussion of this huge event has veered away from substantive issues about Faust’s vision for the University; instead it has had a remarkably narrow focus: gender. The F-Word Fact and fiction on Faust's feminism By DANIEL J. HEMEL Friday, February 16, 2007 Faust has been branded with the F-word by critics who have clearly never read her work, nor examined her qualifications. The Apotheosis of Doctor Faust Will Radcliffe Dean sell Harvard’s soul to intellectual oblivion? By CHRISTOPHER B. LACARIA Sunday, February 11, 2007 Harvard has ensconced a career academic and mid-level administrator culled from the women’s studies henhouse. Leadership at Harvard By HOWARD E. GARDNER Friday, February 09, 2007 More so than any other university’s president, Harvard’s president must serve as both a trust officer and an agent of constructive change. Don’t Rush, Get It Right By PETER J. GOMES Friday, February 02, 2007 The Overseers must remember that they have a moral duty to assay the intangible qualities essential to an effective presidency.