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...tenure system, of course, was created in order to foster academic freedom??in order to allow professors to publish (as West has done in the past) bold and original scholarship without worrying whether it will be immediately accepted. The system was not created so that professors with tenure would have free license to effectively switch careers and produce things other than scholarship, be they music, drawings or lawn-chairs. West’s job—the one that Harvard hired him for and pays him a large salary to perform—is to write scholarly books...
...When we in the civil rights movement were hit with terrorism, we kept on walking up to freedom??s way,” he said. “[It’s American] to have to keep on walking...
Does Harvard—which has benefited immeasurably from simply being an American institution—have an obligation, as President Lawrence H. Summers suggested in his inaugural speech last Friday, “to honor those who defend our freedom??? Or is it acceptable to treat those who defend that freedom as a secondary class engaged in the nation’s dirty work...
...treasure in Zimbabwe, where he grew up listening to bands like the Beatles and Elvis Presley, and began to play guitar with the aim of being a rock and roll star. As his social awareness grew—and the country moved towards civil war in its struggle for freedom??he became more interested in local music, eventually synthesizing his two interests into a new, entirely Zimbabwean sound that was called Chimurenga music after the historic name of the liberation struggle. This music uses traditional elements, but transposes them onto more Western instruments; thus the rolling 6/8 rhythms...