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...nice move for Afro-Am. Lee's presence--if only for a semester--will add some spice to a department which has sorely needed it for some time. It may even convince some students to give Afro-Am a second look as a possible concentration. Henry Louis Gates Jr., who motivated this event, did the right thing...
Forty mules and an acre? We know that there are plenty of empty offices in the Afro-Am Department building, but if Lee is planning to bring all 40 mules, where is he going to put them? Perhaps Lee might accept an appointment at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in exchange for a small donation to the "Taxonomy of Pack Animals" exhibit...
When Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. announced that he would be leaving Duke University to head Harvard's Afro-Am Department, students there joked that he was "skipping town." At the time, Stanley E. Fish, the chair of Duke's English Department--in which Gates held a joint appointment--took the matter in stride. But it looks like "skipping town syndrome" might be contagious after...
...article in the recent Atlantic Monthly Dinesh D'Souza writes of the difficult issues confronting the evolving concept of a liberal education. D'Souza presents a case study of Duke University, and, in a discussion of Black scholars, quotes heavily from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.--the Afro-Am scholar who is leaving Duke to come to Harvard next semester. D'Souza writes...
Although we'll have to wait to pass judgement on Gates, we feel we must call Duke's bluff on one point. Harvard's Afro-Am department is anything but "renowned." "Infamous," maybe, but definitely not "renowned...