Word: colloquiums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before a crowd of 100 at a sophomore colloquium, Skinner, Pierce Professor of Psychology emeritus, responded to critics of behaviorism who feel that its theories minimize the importance of internal emotional states...
...Professors [Cornel] West and [Harold] Cruse for not responding to a charge of anti-Semitism, or pro-Farrakhan-ism, as it were. Is this not a straw man argument, used for the purpose of arousing antagonistic sentiment toward Cruse, West, and "Black intellectuals" (and therefore the Du Bois Graduate Colloquium, which Mr. Barron takes as an example of the latter)? As the risk of sounding naive, which I don't think I am overly, the issue of the Nation of Islam's Minister Farrakhan was not a topic of discussion on any of the panels, or one raised (except tangentially...
...West is an assistant professor at the Yale Divinity School, not Conrad West. And I would add that Professor Cruse's remarks at the fall meeting/lecture of the Seymour Society, an undergraduate Christian organization, may have little in acutality to do with his remarks at the Du Bois Graduate Colloquium (which were a "reminiscence" of Professor Du Bois, with comments linking Professor Du Bois's career with that of young scholars today). As I was not present at the Seymour Society talks, I can not respond to them. I do think it is important, under the circumstances, not to confuse...
Conrad West, associate professor of philosophy of religion at the Yale Divinity School and star of the colloquium, effectively outlined a plan for a new critical consciousness, but declined to articulate that plan in relation to Farrakhan. To loud applause, West simply noted that the minister was a symbol of defiance. He added as apposite that Farrakhan was anti-Semitic, xenophobic, and decidedly anti-intellectual. It is safe to conclude that little of West's qualification was heard, never mind accepted...
...Black intellectuals would stop worrying about what Jews think, which is only what Cruse called for two decades ago, then they could become catalysts for change. As it stands, Black intellectuals--if the colloquium can be taken as an example--discredit themselves by exhalting critical scrutiny while they sweep an intellectually turbulent problem out of view...