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McCarthy: But my point is that the questions don’t have to be about whether or not he deserves to have the University professorship based on his work, but those questions can be phrased as, “You said something that really bothered me. You said something that I completely disagree with.” Not, “You said something that makes you any less excellent or unfit to be here.” There’s a difference...
...with what was just said. Because I think that if he is continuously making comments that alienate most people, most Americans, mainstream, his peers, white people, then that could make him unfit. Okay, I’m actually kidding with some of those. But who is funding a University professorship? That guy you were talking to in the bathroom who is sending a million-dollar check...
...sure the majority of those white alums just have the impression of Cornel West that he has cultivated himself as a left-wing polemicist. And so they are thinking to themselves, “What is this left-wing polemicist doing with a University professorship?” And they may be wrong, his scholarship may have been impeccable, but he has created this image for himself...
Prior to Appiah’s decision to accept Princeton’s offer of a full professorship, students launched a last-ditch e-mail effort to keep him at Harvard...
Segal, who came to Harvard in 1990 and held the Klein professorship of the classics, taught an undergraduate survey of Greek literature, as well as upper-level and graduate seminars on Homer and Virgil...