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Harvard has driven away another brilliant African-American professor, Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 (Online Breaking News, “Harvard Loses West to Princeton,” April 12). The truth is that Harvard College is still a stronghold of institutionalized racism, which has reluctantly allowed some black scholars to exist in its midst. I can say that because I spent four years of my life on the campus. In the 1960s and 70s, we African-American students had to take over Harvard’s main administration building in order to persuade...
...Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 will depart Harvard for Princeton at the end of the academic year, Princeton announced this afternoon...
Despite speculation that Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 would decide early this week whether he will depart Harvard for Princeton at the end of the academic year, professors close to West said yesterday that the scholar has not yet made up his mind...
University President Lawrence H. Summers said yesterday he has been making strenuous efforts to keep Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 at Harvard...
...brothers and sisters have the wrong conception of the front line,” voices a smooth-talking Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 in his prophetic and radically democratic text Sketches of My Culture. To brother Cornel, the real front lines include “working people fighting against unaccountable corporate power with its obscene levels of wealth and inequality.” At Harvard, the front line struggle can be seen in the bureaucratic reluctance to pay workers a living wage, the inequitable recruitment and retention of minority faculty, the tight-fisted apportionment...