Word: scholarshipped
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Eight hundred dollars a semester in books and coursepacks is not a minor expense. A friend on a full scholarship is given only a $600 yearly allowance for books; at a fairly standard student wage of $10 per hour it would take 80 hours (ignoring possible income taxes) to make up the difference. That’s at least eight working weeks on a student schedule—most of the semester...
...learn not the grades,” says William M. Gelbart, professor of molecular and cellular biology. “I don’t think [administrators] should loose a lot of sleep over this. There are a lot more important things to worry about here like pedagogy and scholarship...
...hearing, he’s also hearing voices that are saying, “Great job. Go get him.” And those people think that they own the place. That’s a huge problem, and I think the assumption that somehow West’s scholarship may not be up to the level it is, is an assumption, especially when we haven’t even read it. Think of Lani Gunier. When she was supposed to be the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Bill Clinton and those that sunk her nomination in Congress never...
Douthat: But Tim, don’t you think that that is something that Cornel West brings on himself by being basically outside of his scholarship. He’s not among Harvard intellectuals, but he’s a bomb threat to public intellectuals. He’s someone who likes going out and spreading controversial things, like his comment on September 11th. Inevitably, he does this much more than anyone else in the Af-Am department. I think if this had been an issue between Skip Gates and Larry Summers you would have had fewer people...
...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...