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...Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. for a list of his “dream team” of Afro-American scholars. They have now been assembled and are ready to accept their first class of doctoral students this fall. Attracting the likes of Cornel West, Lawrence Bobo and William Julius Wilson was one of Rudenstine’s top priorities and one of his most tangible and personal legacies to the University...
...tale of how Rudenstine asked Gates to make a “fantasy list” of scholars for the department is practically Harvard legend. Rudenstine handed Gates a blank sheet of legal paper. Gates made a list that included Lani Guinier, Cornel West, William Julius Wilson, the Higginbothams, Lawrence D. Bobo and Suzanne P. Blier. A decade later, he notes, they’re all at Harvard, and the Afro-American Studies program—ranked number one in the nation—is planning to accept its first class of doctoral candidates this fall...
...class, it's like attending church on a Sunday morning," Ghartey-Tagoe says. "I was sitting in the front row going 'mm-hmmmm' and 'amen' to everything [Fletcher University] Professor [Cornel] West '74 was saying...
...class is to me a class taught by Cornel West," Demas says. "I've heard [West] is a fantastically motivated person and he's one of the leading African-American philosophers in this country at this time...
...debate continued at a Kennedy School forum later that same year, called "The responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack." Panelists included Gates, Rivers and Fletcher Jr. University Professor Cornel West...