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 BOSTON (AP) - Some are calling the no-confidence vote against Harvard President Lawrence Summers a shout in the dark — a symbolic gesture from just one of many divisions of the university, and a decreasingly influential one at that.
But Tuesday's surprise 218-185 vote by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences won't make Summers' job any easier.
The 672-member arts and sciences faculty is indeed just one of nine faculties at Harvard that oversee 11 academic divisions, but it remains first among equals in prestige. It is the wealthiest and largest, and the physical and intellectual core of the university. Among other things, it includes Harvard College, the university's undergraduate division, and grants all Harvard doctorates. Its buildings in Harvard Yard are the ones on all the postcards.
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