Word: af
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...been acting and working on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s next presidential campaign. It’s been participating in student protest. It’s been, and I mean this is just according to reports, that Summers questioned him about reports he heard of West missing Af-Am lectures in order to go on speaking tours and a variety of things. I mean, none of them may have been true, but I did think that if some of them were true it would be legitimate for a University president to speak to a University professor about such...
...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.” I mean, obviously, you would have had some who are going...
...well, but I think that if the department can weather something like this, can weather having two of three or four of its best faculty leave, then that would be a great success. Because it seems to me that as Tim said, right now from an exterior perspective the Af-Am department is defined by the fact that we have the best black professors in America, not by the fact that we’re doing Af-Am studies better than anyone else. This is the sad position of higher education, that any time you have six or eight...
...which way, seems to have been under a lot of pressure to accommodate the faculty in certain ways. He certainly called faculty members in, had meetings with departments telling them they needed to be more patriotic. He is never above criticism for that, just as the members of the Af-Am department should never be above criticism...
Three sets of eyes focus expectantly on us. A few introductory questions are asked and answered before both reporters eagerly segue into the issue which is the purpose for the ride—trouble in the Af-Am department...