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...West??s widely publicized fallout with Summers, coupled with a series of other incidents, has lit a fire in the collective heart of students and started a real campus-wide conversation. Not since the birth of the Afro-American studies department—which followed the University Hall takeover of 1969—has the University occupied such a prominent place on the national stage because of minority issues. Everybody is talking about West. Everybody has an opinion...
...year later, Yeng works in Hong Kong, far removed from Cambridge happenings. She hasn’t heard of West??s departure. “Cornel West is leaving?” she exclaims. “That’s out of control...
Incidents like West??s resignation and the publication of Fong’s article produce an instant debate. Charges of minority self-segregation are usually met by the countercharge that white students and any number of other groups (athletes, musicians, actors, computer science concentrators) also self-segregate. But fairly or unfairly, minority racial and ethnic self-segregation is by far the most visible...
Many pre-frosh said this weekend they had been following coverage of the dispute between Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 in the national media and said they were unsettled by West??s allegations that Summers “disrespected” and “dishonored?...
Fred O. Smith ’04, political action chair of the BSA, suggested this year’s yield for minorities will be unaffected by West??s departure. But if Summers does not improve his rocky relationship with the minority community, these numbers may go down...