Harvard picks first woman president

[nehemiah]

good for harvard.

good for gary hogeboom.

BOSTON (Reuters) - A celebrated historian on Sunday became Harvard's first female president since its founding in 1636, succeeding Lawrence Summers whose short tenure was dogged by controversial remarks about women and a faculty revolt.

Drew Gilpin Faust, 59, a scholar of the U.S. South, was named 28th president of the oldest U.S. institute of higher learning, making Harvard the fourth of the nation's eight elite Ivy League schools to name a woman leader.

Harvard said Faust was elected on Sunday to the job, long called the most prestigious in higher education, after a vote by the university's Board of Overseers, an alumni body. The appointment is effective July 1.

"No university in the country, perhaps the world, has as remarkable a past as Harvard's," Faust, who has never managed a big organization, said in a statement. "And our shared enterprise is to make Harvard's future even more remarkable than its past."
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[Green Lantern]

Faust! Ha!

Did she make a deal with the devil for her infinite knowledge?

What horrible luck to marry that name and be a professor.

[uppy]

Thats great .....I'm happy its about time a woman was prez of harvard.

I also belive she was the best person thay could find ;)

[JLB]

Somebody appreciates women about time.

[uppy]

Yup...thay should have done this some time back.....why do some woman

use three names...?

Drew Gilpin Faust

Hillary Rodham Clinton

[JLB]

Insecure I guess or maybe just showing off.

[Green Lantern]

Those are their maiden names. They don't like the European tradition of taking their husband's names because they are then a part of that family. They keep their own name as a symbolic gesture that says that they have kept their original identity from before marriage. They don't belong to anyone.

[uppy]

Thanks Aqua

[Green Lantern]

Thanks Aqua

PS- Some people, like Rodham Clinton or the Kennedy's, keep the name because that maiden name carries power and influence.

This is probably why half the grandkids of the famous Kennedy brothers who come from the women of the family have middle names of Kennedy..."William Kennedy Smith" for example.

[uppy]

William Kennedy Smith....lol

I like it Aqua

you have a great sense of humor my man.

[Mouldsie]

I hope her first order of is accepting me and then her second order of business should be accepting only hot intelligent females to make up the incoming freshman class.