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Over the past several weeks, a private disagreement between President Larry H. Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel West has exploded into a national controversy. Since the uproar began, West and other prominent members of the Afro-American Studies Department have reportedly considered offers to leave the University. While we do not know what exactly was said in the October meeting between West and Summers, nor the manner in which it was said, it seems that this issue has been blown far out of proportion. Now that the crisis appears to have been averted, we can look upon the entire...
...makes me sick leaving for Harvard for the holidays knowing that as soon as I take off, the administration will engross themselves in a royally entertaining debacle. We weren’t gone long before Cornel "Wild Wild" West and Henry "Skip-Out" Gates got ready to dash away, dash away all to Princeton. And then, just as Summers was making up to the Af-Am Department under the mistletoe, the Katz Committee snuck in to keep things interesting until exams...
...statement was signed by Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah, DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., Climenko Professor of Law, Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 and Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson...
Gates appointment to the lectureship comes at a trying time for the Afro-American Studies department at Harvard. Rumors have circulated that Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 has been considering leaving Harvard for Princeton after a meeting with University President Lawrence H. Summers earlier this fall...
...conflict between University President Lawrence H. Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 has been resolved, according to senior members of the Afro-American Studies department...