Graduate students support Summers' presidency

There were several reasons why I did not post anything here for a few days:

• The report from Sidneyfest was slightly time-consuming, and there were good reasons to keep it as the first posting of the blog for a couple of days
• On Monday morning, all physics professors at Harvard received an embarassing e-mail from an anonymous sender who was most likely located in San Diego. The sender, who was provoked by my article about the last faculty meeting, connected me with voodoo, cross-dressing (?), accused me of racism, and demonstrated that he supported very different political powers in Iraq than I do (well, he or she supported the anti-American forces)
• Would you agree that it is sick to combine the discussion about Summers with the situation in Iraq and the Middle East? It was not the first time when an e-mail indicated that Al-Qaeda is going after Summers' supporters. I was feeling threatened, embarassed, and black-mailed, and now I am only slowly regaining the feelings of freedom and self-confidence
  
• The physics postings were also suppressed for a couple of days after the description of Witten's talk at Sidneyfest revealed that even things such as the Weinberg-Witten theorem are controversial

Concerning our University's president, I am happy to announce that according to an official poll at Harvard's GSAS (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences),

• most graduate students have confidence in Lawrence Summers.