A group of University of California faculty has succeeded in silencing a voice with which they disagree. That voice belongs to Lawrence Summers, former president of Harvard University and former Secretary of the Treasury for the Clinton Administration. John Wildermuth of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that Summers was supposed to address the University's Board of Regents at a scheduled dinner next week, but that after a faculty petition protesting Summers' appearance gained more than  300 signatures, Summers was abruptly dumped from the engagement.Writes Wildermuth:"I was appalled and stunned that someone like Summers would even be invited to speak to the regents," said UC Davis Professor Maureen Stanton, who helped put together the petition drive. "I think many of us who were involved in the protest believed that it wouldn't reflect well on the university that he even received the invitation."The petition called Summers' invitation "not only...(Read Full Post)