Former Harvard President Larry Summers, who had some kind of part-time not-really-a-job at the college that he kind of self-suspended from anyway last year because of his emails with Jeffrey Epstein, told the Crimson on Wednesday he’s packing it in at the end of this semester.
Summers was not the only Ivory Tower inmate who palled around with Dirty Jeff to call it a career this morning as Nobel laureate Dr Richard Axel announced he had “informed Columbia University that I will step down as co-director of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute to focus on research and teaching in my lab. I also informed HHMI that I will resign my position as an HHMI Investigator. My past association with Jeffrey Epstein was a serious error in judgment, which I deeply regret. I apologize for compromising the trust of my friends, students, and colleagues.”
“I recognize the problems this has caused, and I will work to restore this trust. What has emerged about Epstein’s appalling conduct, the harm that he has caused to so many people, makes my association with him all the more painful and inexcusable,” continued the guy holding himself more accountable than Donald Trump, Howard Lutnick, and who the hell knows how many others.