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...Cornel West brings on himself by being basically outside of his scholarship. He’s not among Harvard intellectuals, but he’s a bomb threat to public intellectuals. He’s someone who likes going out and spreading controversial things, like his comment on September 11th. Inevitably, he does this much more than anyone else in the Af-Am department. I think if this had been an issue between Skip Gates and Larry Summers you would have had fewer people at the Alumni Association saying, “Way to go, Summers...
McCarthy: If he says that September 11th has niggerized America, yes, that’s going to alienate people and that’s going to piss people off, and they are going to be like, “God, why is he saying that on C-SPAN?!” But the fact of the matter is that doesn’t mean he is any less excellent. It just means that he is using the platform he has because he has earned that space, because he has done a lot of stuff that is quite excellent...
...think the case is there that those comments could make West unfit to have such a prestigious position, to have such a huge platform. He has to be responsible for that platform. We talked earlier about President Summers discussing with his faculty about how to deal with September 11th. The president realizes that the Harvard name that they so zealously try to protect from being used by the people carries a lot of weight with it, and you have to use it responsibly. It reflects so poorly not only on the institution, but on alums, on people who will graduate...
When he started the job in 1991, Knowles said, he had planned to serve about 10 years. He is currently serving his 11th year in a position whose average tenure has, in recent history, been about six years...
After the nordic portion, Harvard sat just ahead of 11th-place Saint Michael’s College with 122 points, needing a strong showing from the alpine team to move up in the standings...