Word: afro
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...want a Harvard soap opera? You can finally change the channel from Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74. Not even the Afro-American Studies department and University President Lawrence H. Summers can match the melodrama and tabloid feel of the show that opened Friday: two gorgeous and semi-famous College seniors accused of running a scam to rip off their friends and colleagues in the old and prestigious Hasty Pudding Theatricals, forsooth...
We’ve had our share of media blowups this year: Afro-American studies and grade inflation among them. But this one has a special flavor all its own—a surreal quality that makes it easier for us to secretly enjoy. We have full emotional license to savor the dark details because it’s a Harvard scandal, but one that for most of us has no personal consequences. Unlike the other two cases, which arguably reflect badly on the school, Randy and Suzanne don’t really affect most...
Less than two weeks after Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah accepted a tenure appointment from Princeton, Harvard’s philosophy department is in danger of losing yet another member to its competition in New Jersey...
...said the national media attention garnered by the dispute between Summers and members of the department has called into question how much Harvard’s faculty members value Afro-American Studies and the professors who compose the department...
...Events of past weeks have given the impression that theres’ something less than total support for Afro-Am at Harvard,” Skocpol said...