Ivy League Starts Second Semester With Controversy

A quarrel between faculty and students at Columbia over Middle East politics has continued to grow and gain greater attention, as evidenced by today's 4 page spread in the New York Times. The dispute centers around allegations of intimidation by pro-Palestinian professors. It's a curious relationship at the nation's best universities, where the academy is usually solidy pro-Palestinaian, but much of the student body Jewish.

Meanwhile Harvard is all abuzz over comments made by President Larry Summers about the disparity between men and women in the sciences. President Summers' suggestion that biology may have some contributing role to play in the achievement gap between the genders has been met with a whirlwind of controversy. Articles about the flap over Summers' comments currently comprise 2 of the 5 most sent articles from the NY Times online. The intial article is linked above. See the follow up here.