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Although he was blasted for those comments, they showed an understanding of subjectivity which he hadn’t demonstrated in his well-publicized spat with Cornel West. Perhaps he saw that notorious argument as a man-to-man talk, without realizing how important West was as a role model and teacher to so many students at Harvard. And when West packed his bags, Summers’ actions were taken by many, in Harvard’s black community and beyond, as threatening—in effect if not intent...
Universities cannot be governed by statistics. Though attrition would be problematic for any business, a university’s success in attracting people is not measurable in percentages: for it takes no more than the case study of former University professors Cornel R. West ’74 and K. Anthony Appiah to show that a single Faculty member’s departure or single declined tenure offer can dilapidate an entire department or, worse, the development of an intellectual idea. The petitions circulated by Summers’ supporters suggest that Summers requires no more than a simple majority approval...
...thus far resisted them. In short, with Harvard in the media spotlight, unusual power has fallen to those who never liked the notion of a university—who have long argued that the professorship is a cushy position that involves no work (as Summers implicitly did in challenging Cornel West a few years...
...quite. These are questions of the Faculty’s ability to constructively dissent from the Mass. Hall party line without fear of reprisal. These are questions about an attitude that some call anything but collegial towards faculty belonging to already underrepresented groups, from former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 to members of the Committee on Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. There are questions of real input into the planning of Harvard’s future, whether regarding Allston, the Curricular Review or university governance as a whole...
...first got spanked for challenging the scholarship of Cornel R. West ’74 and should have learned that one doesn’t tilt against left-leaning windmills. But, Summers is either a slow learner or a conservative plant. Either way, he is exposing the left for its self-righteous attempt to homogenize scientific and political thought...