Harvard President to Resign

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Lawrence H. Summers has announced that he will resign as president of Harvard University at the end of the 2005-06 academic year, the school announced on its Web site.

Summers became Harvard's 27th president after Neil L. Rudenstine announced in May 2001 his resignation after nearly a decade. Summer's resignation ends the briefest tenure of any Harvard president since 1862, when Cornelius Felton died after two years in office.

As Harvard's president, Summers, a former U.S. Treasury secretary in the Clinton Administration, on several occasions made comments that drew intense criticism.

Last year he suggested that innate gender differences between the sexes that might explain the few women in science and math.

The search for a new Harvard President probably will not include a registered Republican,evangelical Christians,or anyone who questions whether someone with a 25 Billion dollar endowment needs 300 million dollars a year from the federal government.