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...recounts Summers’ now famous dispute with former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, Bradley puts forth new details of the contentious meetings which ultimately led to West’s departure...
...only group that has been alienated by Summers' rough-and-tumble manner. Soon after leaving his post as President Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary and returning to the Cambridge campus where he earned his Ph.D. and taught economics in the 1980s, Summers questioned African-American studies professor Cornel West's scholarship and teaching, causing West to leave for Princeton and upsetting many in Harvard's African-American community. In a controversy in 2002, Muslims on campus said they were offended when Summers labeled as "anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent" the efforts of a group...
...seemed like Summers had finally learned his lesson, moving away from the reputation of being “a bull in a china shop,” as former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 described Summers when West left Harvard three years...
...Harvard’s president is notoriously unflinching in the face of ideological or personal opposition, and his perceived distaste for compromise and diplomacy has alienated many. The Cornel West ’74 debacle is a case in point; the former Fletcher University Professor has maintained that Summers was the catalyst of his well-publicized 2002 departure for Princeton, saying Summers treated a delicate situation “like a bull in a china shop.” The truth of the messy row probably lies somewhere between the he said/he said accounts offered by the academic giants...
...Harvard’s president is notoriously unflinching in the face of ideological or personal opposition, and his perceived distaste for compromise and diplomacy has alienated many. The Cornel West ’74 debacle is a case in point; the former Fletcher University Professor has maintained that Summers was the catalyst of his well-publicized 2002 departure for Princeton, saying Summers treated a delicate situation “like a bull in a china shop.” The truth of the messy row probably lies somewhere between the he said/he said accounts offered by the academic giants...