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...where conservative student monthly The Salient frequently quipped about West’s radical methodology, Princeton has given the professor a fair share of its own detractors. The September 2005 cover of Princeton’s humor magazine The Princeton Tiger, for instance, features a vaguely offensive caricature of Cornel West playing beer pong and wearing a golden dollar sign pennant around his neck...
...open to listening to people, and he’s invested in conversation as a crucial dimension of the experience in a classroom,” Glaude says. “Many times, when people reach a certain status they seem to always talk to or at people, but Cornel is invested in talking with people...
Meanwhile, as dearly as Skip Gates may miss his friend Cornel, for msot of Harvard’s current student body, the professor is little more than a framed photo and a blot on Summers’ tenure. The last class that remembers his powerful presence on campus graduated this past June, taking his memory with them, for better or for worse. Even though his portrait still hangs, the mark he left on Harvard Af-Am may soon be obscured by the department’s new direction and influx of new faculty...
...Good things” is an understatement. From 1993 to 2001, the department could do no wrong under the leadership of Gates, former Carswell Professor K. Anthony Appiah, and former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74. More than 500 students regularly packed West’s introductory course in Afro-American Studies, Af-Am 10, eager to experience his dynamic lectures. Gates palled around with Bill Clinton (the man whom Toni Morrison referred to as our first black president). Gates, West, and the whole Af-Am team were an academic powerhouse...
During the Cornel West era, Harvard Af-Am was the precocious new kid on the block, a relative youngster wowing everybody in the academic world. Now, although West is gone, AAAS finds itself at the dawn of a new era, having broadened its scope and unified its disciplines...