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Closer to Cambridge, he also stirred up controversy when his private comments to a professor were made public during his first days in office. Afro-American Studies Professor West reported that Summers “disrespected” him in a meeting, when the president urged him to pursue more scholarly endeavors...
...Crazy-ethno-afro-funkadeliciousness,” he offers. “Make it crazy and different, and that?...
...succeed in honors classes. The AVID classes teach them how to take notes and study for exams more effectively, and provide tutoring. Samir Webster, who came to Huron last year with pretty good middle school grades but an antiacademic chip on his shoulder the size of his blowout Afro, didn't apply himself until AVID class changed his attitude. He now has a B average. "I used to watch TV, play video games or hang with my friends rather than do homework," he says. "But now homework comes first. I've realized grades are important...
With his large white Afro and beard, sonorous baritone voice and tall stature, Soyinka has a commanding presence. His spacious office is located across the hall from Gates’, and his shelves are overflowing with books, many of which have “Africa” written somewhere along their spines...
Harvard’s enrollment figures for black students reached bottom in 2002 after Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, a prominent scholar in what was then called the Department of Afro-American Studies, left Harvard for Princeton. But Slater said Harvard “has rebounded nicely...