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...Mendelsohn says, those encouraging signs only partially mitigated the climate of nervousness about Summers that preceded his arrival and was exacerbated by the public controversy with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, which was viewed by administrators as a clash of style rather than substance...
...intimidating and fabulously wealthy CEO of the Walt Disney Company, infamous for his dispute with former executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. Larry Summers is the ambitious and intimidating University president in charge of Harvard’s fabulously rich endowment, infamous for his dispute with perhaps-soon-to-be-former professor Cornel West. Everything at Disney and the surrounding area costs three times as much as it does anywhere else. A education at Harvard—or any product or service purchased in Harvard Square—costs three times as much as it does anywhere else...
...issues? Lee offers this example of the need for the council to serve as a gauge for student body opinion on these kinds of issues: an ABC News reporter approached her, asking for Harvard College students’ take on the recent uproar surrounding Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74. Lee has said she regrets not being able to speak for the student body in that instance. I don’t regret it at all. Is the role of the president of the Undergraduate Council to be the student body?...
Grade inflation, for instance, while a problem throughout the University, is admittedly more prevalent in the humanities. Who better to take on this task than someone who understands the egos in English and the politics of philosophy? After witnessing the Cornel West debacle, it is obvious that Summers needs someone to run interference for him with certain departments, especially those most likely to be targeted by a grade inflation initiative...
...contentious debate between the sides took place, it was always about who had the power. Who had the power to negotiate? Who controlled? Who had the high ground, to a degree? Is the president going to be forced to do whatever this black professor wants him to do? Is Cornel West going to be able to stand up for what he thinks is right and speak his mind? Or does he have to follow the dictates of a university president? Race tinges it in a way, but it’s very much about power. I think it?...