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...Former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 departed for Princeton University in 2002 after a much-publicized tiff with Summers. Joining West at Princeton was former Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah...
...first year at the helm, the former Treasury secretary clashed with one of the stars of Harvard’s African and African American Studies Department, Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West...
...blind to the tumult that defined much of Summers’ tenure. The list of indictments is not short. A public spat with former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 led to the departure of one of the dynamos of the African and African American Studies department. Then came Summers’ remarks linking proponents of a divestment movement from Israel with anti-Semitism “in their effect, if not their intent”; this accusation alienated professors who felt Summers was effectively squelching debate...
...They didn’t get into the nitty-gritty,” said Sophia H. Sahaf, who studies international relations at Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. “It was a nice conversation but they didn’t address the real controversy...
Another student from the Fletcher School, Alex J. Taurel, said he felt the panelists exercised the same self-censorship that they were arguing against...