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President Summers meets with Fletcher University Professor Cornel West ’74 in an attempt to keep the prominent Afro-American studies professor from leaving Harvard and returning to Princeton. West’s allegation that Summers questioned his scholarship at an October meeting makes national news...
...readiness to speak out publicly on issues pertaining to Harvard and higher education—after Sept. 11 he expressed support for Harvard students in ROTC and called on the University to support the nation and not be afraid of patriotism. But a meeting with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 soured his promising beginning. The meeting—in which Summers reportedly raised questions about West’s non-academic activities and informed West that he would monitor his academic output—became a public measure of Summers’s general support...
Some 350 students participated in the protest, listening to speeches delivered by Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 and calling for the creation of an office of multicultural affairs to implement a “clear racial ethnic harassment policy...
...epic story of whether Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 would stay at Harvard or jump ship to Princeton after his falling-out with University President Lawrence H. Summers made the front page of the New York Times and brought the Rev. Jesse Jackson to campus to, as he said, “investigate...
...other hand, has been marred by several incidents which have caused many to question Summers’ dedication to diversity. While Summers has embraced diversity in his rhetoric, his actions have not backed up his words. By ignoring calls for an ethnic studies department after mishandling the Cornel West controversy, Summers has shown his definition of diversity to be different from that which the University needs. Summers should heed students’ calls for an ethnic studies department if Harvard is to continue to lead the nation in inclusiveness and breadth of its academic program...