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...their now-infamous meeting last year, Summers allegedly criticized West??s inattention to serious scholarship, his frequent leaves of absence and his overly generous grading policies. Whether or not you count yourself among West??s detractors, these are all at least debatable criticisms. And while West certainly isn’t unique among Harvard professors for his professional slumming (ask Marge Garber, fresh off a book about sex and real estate, or Alan Dershowitz, who took time off to defend O.J. Simpson and Mike Tyson), his relentless pursuit of celebrity and insatiable appetite for publicity sets...
...part is that West??s rhetoric may leave a lasting blot on Harvard’s image. Harvard may have given rise to epochal black scholars like W.E.B. DuBois, but it has had to struggle for decades with its reputation as a lily-white pedestal for the privileged. One of the few great accomplishments of former Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine’s tenure was his dogged emphasis on diversity, which succeeded in erasing much of the stain of that history and making the university a genuinely welcoming place for black students. Ironically, the highest-profile symbol...
...Kissinger ’50, a Harvard man and no stranger to the polite street brawl, once quipped that “university politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” The actual stakes of the West-Summers clash could not be tinier. But West??s race-baiting could ensure that the venom lingers for years to come...
...retrospect, it appears that the disagreement was little more than a turf war, with two strong-willed men playing an intricate game of politics. That Summers happens to be a Jew and West black was only incidental to their disagreement. The same race-based misconception plagued those who claimed West??s comment was anti-Semitic—the negative comparison of two people who both happen to be Jewish does not a bigot make...
Larry Summers has taken the fall for rapping Cornel West??s flight to Princeton and protests are everywhere—on the steps of Widener, in the Yard, and even in front of Abercrombie & Fitch...