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At tables outside the Science Center earlier this week, students were working feverishly to collect signatures for a petition to keep Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 at Harvard. After a high-profile spat with University President Lawrence H. Summers this past fall, West has hinted...
The best way to speed up this process is to cut the eastern lines free from the millstone of a nationwide passenger service. Amtrak regularly loses $200 per passenger in the heartland. Although rail enthusiasts would be outraged, an eastern corridor rail line would be better able to petition money...
He and a handful of other students met before spring break to develop a plan of action to convince West to remain at Harvard and came up with the petition.
Brandon A. Gayle ’03, president of the Black Students’ Association, said he and the other students who initiated the petition feel that Summers and the central administration have not done enough to convince West to remain at Harvard.
DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. said yesterday he has been urging West to remain at Harvard. Though he said he does not yet know what West’s ultimate decision will be, he said he felt West would appreciate...