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Professors are careful not to criticize him too loudly. Even typically outspoken Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 calls Summers’ interaction with Faculty a “touchy topic...
Gayle: Well, I think it is very much who he is, with this whole freedom of speech notion and academic freedom. Look at Professor Mansfield, he can say whatever the hell he wants...
...generated by West. They assumed that this was something Cornel West blew out of proportion. They assumed that Cornel West had made this a problem. They assumed that Summers had a legitimate grudge because they assumed Cornel West was somehow not of the caliber of someone like, say, Harvey Mansfield, or some other heavily-endowed professors at Harvard. And it seems to me that we need to resist that, and that it is there...
...mean, Professor West left the meeting feeling like he was disrespected. To bring it back to this whole situation, that’s the whole way freedom of speech should work. If you are going to judge someone, do it respectfully. I can’t stand Professor Mansfield, to be honest, but I respect him as an academic and I respect what he does, and he certainly has the right to say and do what he wishes. Now, will I challenge him should he open his mouth again? Yes. Will I do it respectfully? There are ways...
...pleasure of taking a Mansfield class where the curve was pre-decided, and 10 percent of students received As. I knew from day one that the prodigy in my section who could recite international constitutions from memory was going to receive my section’s A. This was not motivating. I also knew that given my new-found grade competition, I would get an easy B by handing in papers I would classify as “adequate.” But no A, no matter what...