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...involvement in internal affairs often ruffles feathers. And in the instance of his now-infamous discussion with former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, when he attempted to redirect West’s energies from rap music to more traditional academic fare, it backfired completely. West subsequently left for Princeton, sparking the beginning of a decline for what used to be the world’s best department of African-American studies (Please see story, page...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Critical Mass. | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...next meeting, on May 3, even Matory appeared to have tempered his rhetoric. He asked Summers how he planned to increase the number of non-white administrators and professors, and how he would try to bring former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 back to Harvard—but did not directly attack Summers’ leadership. And two weeks later, at the last Faculty meeting of the year, the 150 or so professors in attendance heard further presentations of the curricular review. There was no mention of the crisis that had defined the Faculty...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Curtains Rise, Tempers Flare | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

Matory lists several of Summers’ controversial actions—ranging from the president’s public spat with Cornel R. West ’74 to his infamous January comments on women in science­—as examples of Summers’ “social Darwinist” tendencies...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Still Fighting | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

That photo features Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Af Am’s chair since 1991, and a department mainstay even as other high-profile professors—including Cornel R. West ’74, K. Anthony Appiah, Lawrence D. Bobo, and Michael C. Dawson—have come and gone...

Author: By William C. Marra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The End of an Era: Af Am Looks to Rebuild After Year of Turmoil | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...Jeff Jacoby, a conservative columnist at the Boston Globe, rallied to Summers’ defense during the University president’s spat with Cornel R. West ’74. (Summers had criticized West, then a star member of the school’s Afro-American studies team, for devoting too much time toward non-academic pursuits, including several prominent left-wing political causes.) And Jacoby commended the University president for his opposition to the Israel divestment movement, which Summers suggested was “anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Elephant In the Room? | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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