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More recently, Summers’ religion became an issue in his spat with former Harvard professor Cornel R. West ’74, who left the Afro-American studies department for Princeton in early...
Shortly after he became our president, Lawrence H. Summers invited Professor Cornel R. West ’74 for a talk. I gather Harvard was paying West about a quarter of a million dollars a year. West, whom my classmate and friend Leon Wieseltier aptly described in The New Republic as “self-endeared,” had found time to make a rap CD that his own website touted as a seminal event in musical history. But he was frequently absent from Cambridge, and had published very little scholarly work. Many thought Summers’ request that...
...critics who attacked his position as a prime example of ‘racism disguised as meritocracy.’” When it came to women and tenure and black academics, Summers was often criticized on the same grounds.Summers was blamed for the departure of star Professor Cornel R. West ’74 after he criticized the academic’s foray into spoken-word stardom. Similarly, Bok took his faculty to task for pursuing lucrative asides at the expense of more academic endeavors.Bok was also the president who first purchased land in Allston?...
...doesn’t have a “Larry story”: an account of some unpleasant encounter with the president, in which he was unnecessarily hostile or dismissive, alienating or offending someone (or everyone) in the room. As with the departure of former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, these are often private meetings, wherein Summers can act as unprofessionally as possible without the threat of public record or recourse. Whether asserting his belief that economists are smarter than other social scientists, or routinely disparaging members of faculty, Summers’ arrogance often...
...launched a long overdue review of the undergraduate curriculum, taught popular courses each year, implemented a far-reaching financial aid initiative, and expanded study abroad opportunities. In many ways, Summers is their president. I have to remind myself that most current Harvard undergraduates are too young to even remember Cornel West. If there is one lesson to be learned from all of this, it’s that faculty and students perceive Summers very differently because they have fundamentally different relationships to him within the structure of the University...