Summers apologizes for insensitive birthday gift
Harvard President Lawrence Summers has come under even more fire in the last couple of days since it was reported that he bought an EZ Bake Oven for a niece who had asked for a chemistry set for her birthday.
Summers has since apologized profusely for the gaffe but explained that he hoped the EZ Bake Oven would facilitate his niece's interest in science with a more practical interest in the domestic arts. "After all, cooking is kind of like chemistry, you experiment until you come up with the correct proportions," said Summers.
"Bullshit!" said the Susan Boyd, Women's Studies chair of Flynn-Boyle college in Monson, MA, and certainly not a respected scientist. "All [Summers] wanted to do was put that little girl in her place in front of an oven and not a Bunsen burner."
Summers has since abandoned his plan to introduce a new scientific topic every month. In February he was planning to ask: "Are scientists naturally ugly?"
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Summers has since apologized profusely for the gaffe but explained that he hoped the EZ Bake Oven would facilitate his niece's interest in science with a more practical interest in the domestic arts. "After all, cooking is kind of like chemistry, you experiment until you come up with the correct proportions," said Summers.
"Bullshit!" said the Susan Boyd, Women's Studies chair of Flynn-Boyle college in Monson, MA, and certainly not a respected scientist. "All [Summers] wanted to do was put that little girl in her place in front of an oven and not a Bunsen burner."
Summers has since abandoned his plan to introduce a new scientific topic every month. In February he was planning to ask: "Are scientists naturally ugly?"
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