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Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 decided to leave Harvard because of fundamental differences with University President Lawrence H. Summers about the purpose of education, one of West??s close friends and colleagues said Saturday night...
...meeting with West last October, Summers reportedly questioned West??s dedication to scholarship and took him to task for making a “rap” CD and working on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s political campaign...
...defended West??s academic work and said the CD was simply an attempt to reach out to more students...
Last week students presented a petition to West??s office signed by 1,200 signatures urging him to stay. Summers has also said that he sent several letters to West over the past months trying to make Harvard a more attractive place...
Carrasco said he understands that many students are disappointed in West??s decision and that he is “leaving in an atmosphere of desperation and what might appear as disrespect for African American and Latino students...