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...will ever know what exactly was said at the fateful October meeting between our new president, Lawrence Summers, and the Fletcher University Professor. Did Summers question West’s scholarship? His political activism? His recent decision to record a rap CD while taking a year-long medical leave? Whatever the substance of their discussion, it left West feeling flummoxed and disrespected and led him to consider taking the drastic step of abandoning Harvard for Princeton...
...have decided that sarcasm is a delicate species of communication, but can it be a useful one? For answers, we can look in these very pages. On Dec. 13, Fletcher University Professor Cornel West ’74 was quoted, in response to questions about the Af-Am 10 take-home exam mix-up and the possible intervention of University President Lawrence H. Summers: “I have nothing to say about Brother Summers—I just wish him well...
...harried,” but the current relationship between Summers and the department does seem to be plagued with problems. Some of the discord comes from Summers’ stance on diversity and affirmative action, the release of a “rap” CD by Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, West’s affiliation with the Rev. Al Sharpton’s presidential run, grade inflation in West’s course Afro-American Studies 10: “Introduction to African-American Studies” and the nonacademic nature of books...
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...