January 11, 2002

For Harvard's President, the Honeymoon's Over; MLA Picks a New Chief

By DANA MULHAUSER and THOMAS BARTLETT

CALLING DALE CARNEGIE? Faculty members in Harvard University's ethnic-studies programs have choice words for the management style of their new president. Polite ones call it "bureaucratic." Others say "disastrous" or "outrageous."

Whatever the word of choice, the result has been a mess. In six months on the job, Lawrence H. Summers has riled professors of African-American and Latino studies, prompting some of them to threaten to leave. He has also drawn criticism from the Rev. Jesse