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Circumstances surrounding Summers’ dispute with the Afro-American Studies professors were only the proverbial straw on the camel’s back...
...nature of Rudenstine’s relationship with the Afro-American department meant that Summers started out on shaky ground...
When Rudenstine arrived at Harvard the Afro-American studies department had one white professor. Rudenstine is credited with building the department into a national powerhouse, and personally recruited many of the department’s senior Faculty...
When Summers outlined his priorities in his October installation speech, Afro-American studies was not mentioned. Summers now avows full commitment to the department, pledging to fight to keep senior department members...
...Summers] wanted to make clear that [Afro-American studies department members] would be treated like others,” one administrator said, meaning an end “to special treatment that Rudenstine gave them...