Last week, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers said he would be retreating from the public eye after new ties to Jeffrey Epstein were revealed in a release of emails. Now, a group of Harvard students are pushing for the university to take a drastic move: revoking Summers’ tenure.

A petition urging Harvard to “shut out Summers” is circulating online, and has already reportedly been signed by hundreds of people. The effort is being coordinated by a group called the Harvard Feminist Coalition.

“With the newest release of emails, including Summers’ communication with Epstein about abusing power as a professor in pursuing sex with a mentee, it confirms what survivors and Harvard community members have said for years: Summers is unfit and unsafe to teach at

See Full Page