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[Michael Eisenstadt]

Bubba wrote:

> I know I give you a lot of silly guff about Harvard, but I really have the
> deepest respect for the institution and their approach to education...as you
> examples illustrate...it operates a vastly more sophisticated approach than
> most other schools.  

and boy are they in the news right now. i heard a
Cornel Wilde telephone interview with a PBS reporter
this morning.

as you know fat boy Larry Summers is their new el
presidente. he is very young for the position and
he may have ambitions to do a Woodrow Wilson
(Princeton president -> White House).

so he may have said to himself 'lets see what 
happens if I move against the Black Studies
department.'  

so he braced Cornel Wilde in an interview. the
one thing he was accused of if it is true is
very very damaging in Harvard terms: missing
classes.

at Harvard the profs never but NEVER miss 
classes unlike everywhere else in academia.

of course they should have never set up an
independent Black Studies department in the
first place. it should have been placed in 
the History department. if Summers can 
reverse this, he's got my vote.

C Wilde in the telephone interview said that
as far as he was concerned, colleges were 
instruments of social change and that his 
agenda could be as well pursued in a community
college as at Harvard or Princeton.

stay tuned!