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Over the past several weeks, a private disagreement between President Larry H. Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel West has exploded into a national controversy. Since the uproar began, West and other prominent members of the Afro-American Studies Department have reportedly considered offers to leave the University. While we do not know what exactly was said in the October meeting between West and Summers, nor the manner in which it was said, it seems that this issue has been blown far out of proportion. Now that the crisis appears to have been averted, we can look upon the entire...
...political tactic of damage control. Regardless of the circumstances that led to the spat between the administration and the Afro-American Studies Department, Summers should have reacted more quickly and more forcefully in order to dispel questions about Harvard’s commitment to diversity after the media uproar began. The University is strongly committed to supporting diversity—as Summers has repeatedly maintained—and it is odd that some faculty members would need additional reassurance. Nevertheless, had Summers released a statement as soon as it became necessary to reaffirm the University’s commitment...
...philosophers should be "lawyers for humanity" (as her beloved Seneca put it), she has thrown herself repeatedly into the public arena--citing Plato on the witness stand in a Colorado courtroom, for example, to argue that there were no ancient precedents for discriminating against homosexuals. That performance sparked an uproar in academic circles and helped make her America's most prominent female philosopher. She has been interviewed by Bill Moyers and photographed by Annie Leibowitz, and she regularly entertains readers of the New Republic and the New York Review of Books with long, acerbic essays...
...wholesale destruction of the entire Muslim and Arab world. “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity,” she declared in her Sept. 13 column in National Review Online (NRO). Coulter’s piece created such an uproar that NRO refused to publish her follow-up column, in which she suggested that airport security should single out any “suspicious-looking swarthy males.” When she publicly complained that NRO was trying to censor her, she was fired from the magazine...
Washington state residents are at it again with their creative lawn decorations. The current hubbub is over a tree carved to look like a seven-foot penis. Last year there was a similar uproar over reindeer cutouts that looked like they were getting it on. So much can happen in just...