{"id":736,"date":"2009-04-16T21:51:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T01:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=736"},"modified":"2009-04-16T22:22:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T02:22:39","slug":"is-greed-the-new-crimson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2009\/04\/16\/is-greed-the-new-crimson\/","title":{"rendered":"Is GreeD the New Crimson?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/04\/smith1.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Smith's town meeting.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Student Labor Action Movement drops a banner at the &#8216;town meeting&#8217;<br \/>\ncalled by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/04\/smith-c.jpg\" alt=\"Students Labor Action Movement drop 'Greed is the New Crimson' Banner.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It says, &#8220;Greed is the New Crimson, No Layoffs&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One questioner asked the Dean, &#8220;How did we get where we are now? Did we believe the paper gains in the endowment were real?&#8221; It&#8217;s a very real question oh so carefully couched in academic terms.  My homes I be sayin&#8217; it, &#8220;Did the Late Larry Summers and Robert Rubin convince the rest of <strong>the Fellows<\/strong> they were real.?&#8221; Smith&#8217;s particular way of ducking was to say, &#8220;Not in my job description.&#8221; A dean will only answer a question about the conduct of <strong>the Fellows<\/strong> if s\/he<sup>1<\/sup> becomes more afraid of the shellacing from &#8216;below&#8217; than the shellacing from &#8216;above&#8217;. All the orchestration and control at the event was an attempt to prevent shellac. <sup>2<\/sup> We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow. Expecting news from Iris Mack. The Larry Summers interest-rate swaps on the new buildings. Y&#8217;all come back, hear?<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Could somebody please show me how to do the non-sexist thing without bludgeoning the lingo?<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>So now you know what you&#8217;ve gotta do \ud83d\ude42 This allow gives you some &#8216;guidance&#8217; about seeking administrative positions. I refer to the Russ Meyer film Super Vixens which I actually saw after I became an enlightened feminist. I was pretty upset about some of the more graphic scenes of gratuitous violence toward women but there was one line, the one applicable here, that I found funny. I will assume that the Berkosphere censorship code is no stricter than network television and use the BattleStar Galactica word &#8216;frackin&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Always be sure the frackin you get is worth the frackin you take.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Student Labor Action Movement drops a banner at the &#8216;town meeting&#8217; called by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith. It says, &#8220;Greed is the New Crimson, No Layoffs&#8221; One questioner asked the Dean, &#8220;How did we get where we are now? Did we believe the paper gains in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-dismal-excuse-for-a-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}