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...people familiar with the Corporation said the relationship between Harper and Summers was irreparably damaged after the president’s public spat with former University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, whom Harper felt had been unfairly rebuked by Summers. The two men communicated only through an intermediary for some time after the incident, the sources said...
...next meeting, on May 3, even Matory appeared to have tempered his rhetoric. He asked Summers how he planned to increase the number of non-white administrators and professors, and how he would try to bring former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 back to Harvard—but did not directly attack Summers’ leadership. And two weeks later, at the last Faculty meeting of the year, the 150 or so professors in attendance heard further presentations of the curricular review. There was no mention of the crisis that had defined the Faculty...
Matory lists several of Summers’ controversial actions—ranging from the president’s public spat with Cornel R. West ’74 to his infamous January comments on women in science—as examples of Summers’ “social Darwinist” tendencies...
That photo features Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Af Am’s chair since 1991, and a department mainstay even as other high-profile professors—including Cornel R. West ’74, K. Anthony Appiah, Lawrence D. Bobo, and Michael C. Dawson—have come and gone...
...Jeff Jacoby, a conservative columnist at the Boston Globe, rallied to Summers’ defense during the University president’s spat with Cornel R. West ’74. (Summers had criticized West, then a star member of the school’s Afro-American studies team, for devoting too much time toward non-academic pursuits, including several prominent left-wing political causes.) And Jacoby commended the University president for his opposition to the Israel divestment movement, which Summers suggested was “anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent...