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We’re in Newton on New Year’s Day when the call comes in: a surprise press conference. In a characteristic show of overzealous journalism, we drop all our plans for the day. Larry Summers has blown his hand, a department (Af-Am) is in uproar and now Jesse Jackson has descended on fair Cambridge. The conference is at 12:30. It’s 12:30 and we reporters are 12 miles away. We have negative time...
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...
...spirit. And so, with his petty, narrow-minded focus on ideologically constructed concepts like “academic output” and “grade inflation” (some have dared to suggest that a genius like West should stoop to supervise the A-heavy grading of Af-Am 10!), our president may have cost Harvard one of the most remarkable intellectuals...
...have decided that sarcasm is a delicate species of communication, but can it be a useful one? For answers, we can look in these very pages. On Dec. 13, Fletcher University Professor Cornel West ’74 was quoted, in response to questions about the Af-Am 10 take-home exam mix-up and the possible intervention of University President Lawrence H. Summers: “I have nothing to say about Brother Summers—I just wish him well...
...Af-Am department short on professors after rift with administration? Hire Coach Murphy—he watches Oprah...