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Perhaps? The Afro-American studies department has been rated the best in the country and is one of the shining jewels in Harvard’s academic crown. The “dream team” of Af-Am professors added both to Harvard’s prestige and to its ability to attract the best and brightest to work and study here. Yet even before the recent controversies surrounding Summers’s dispute with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, there was concern about his commitment to diversity from among several senior faculty members...
...from me to sully the frivolity that I’ve spent an entire academic year creating in this, my hallowed column space. Conversations about Cornel or the plight of Af-Am at Harvard are reserved for a more earnest forum. No, when talking about race-based issues in the twenty-first century, I can’t help but rant about something a bit less important, a bit more…well, glam...
...says Fred O. Smith ’04, a BSA board member. “We don’t want to lose what we do have and sacrifice it for something called ‘ethnic studies’ which may not become the powerhouse that the Af-Am department has become...
...mucks in the high command. We go back to Harvard after an impassioned speech by the general and welcome every single Air Force Cadet in the ROTC program to Brian’s common room. I feel empowered by the fact that I am bigger and stronger than the AF-ROTC troglodyte girls and force them to drink Pabst Blue Ribbon while I tender libations at the bar. Cadet Sean D. McGrath ’02 of Eliot House allows me to referee an arcane Air Force drinking contest. That, of course, is my great honor...
...find the fact that he thinks about Af-Am in the context of the Civil War and as the exception to the rule is rather troubling,” he said...