And Lawrence Summers has announced he will step down as President of Harvard University at the end of the academic year. Summers created a firestorm one year ago for suggesting women have less innate scientific ability than men. Early in his tenure, Summers clashed with several black studies professors, including Cornell West, who ended up leaving the university. Pressure on Summers to resign intensified after Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences passed a no-confidence vote last March. Another no confidence vote had been scheduled for next week. Summers has a history of making controversial statements. In 1991, while working for the World Bank, Summers wrote an infamous memo that advocated exporting the pollution of industrialized countries to the Third World, which he called: “underpolluted.”