Jackson steps into Harvard dispute: Seeks 'clarity' on diversity policy

Boston Globe ^ | December 31, 2001 | Scott S. Greenberger

[sarcasm]

Jackson said he will contact university president Lawrence H. Summers today to request a meeting. If Summers refuses to meet, Jackson said, he's making the trip anyway.

''The tension at Harvard is having an impact across the country,'' Jackson said in a phone interview with the Globe.

[sarcasm]

Got a rhyme?

[leadpenny]

West is scheduled to be on C-SPAN2 for three hours on Sunday. Might be interesting if you can stand to watch.

[Yeti]

It is rather to bring clarity ...

It case there was vagueness or doubt about whether or not there would be a national smear campaign against him for failing to knuckle under, Jesse brings clarity: there will be.

And "spontaneous" demonstrations by the grade-inflated indoctrinees in the student body.

And more.

[dennisw]

West is also angry, his colleagues say, about an October meeting with Summers in which the president rebuked West for recording a rap CD, for leading a political committee for the Rev. Al Sharpton's possible presidential campaign, and for writing books more likely to be reviewed in The New York Times than in academic journals.

Summers also reportedly criticized West for allowing grade inflation in his introductory course on black studies. Grade inflation has been a contentious issue this year at Harvard, which recently reported that nearly half of all grades given are A's.

Hhahahahaha

[sarcasm]

He used to be a perennial on Pacifica Radio - he makes me gag.

[CharlieDarwin]

t case there was vagueness or doubt about whether or not there would be a national smear campaign against him for failing to knuckle under, Jesse brings clarity: there will be.

The Harvard prexy needs to bring clarity to the issue by saying, CLEARLY, to Jesse Jackass "There's the door, bum."

[YaYa123]

The looney left, socialists, Clintonistas, and their brainy black compadres on campus, are squabbling among themselves. It's a good thing!

"Jesse seeks clarity" = Jesse wants attention.

Tsk tsk Harvard...you cudda, you shudda, hired AlGore. He practically begged for the job, remember?
Al would already have Jesse on the Harvard payroll, and those nettlesome black professors would be co-authoring every decison Al and Jesse made.

[gaspar]

"Afro-American Studies" is a keyword for the mind meld of morons and Marxists.

[PJ-Comix]

I think Harvard should also meet with another leader who can help bring "clarity" on the diversity policy---Big Al Sharpton.

[RushLake]

Sadly, Harvard is no longer the university that produced many of the great founders of our great nation. I find it ironic in the least that one of the bastians of the left is now under attack from one of the two great hate filled leftist liberal (dare I say communist) organizations, the africanhyphenamericans. I've had the misfortune to have to work with a couple of examples of their recent alumni--arrogant without the intellectual tools to be that.

[Howlin]

''The tension at Harvard is having an impact across the country,''

Yeah, I've been up all night worrying about it, how about you?

[cardinal4]

Spurred by a high-profile dispute between Harvard University and its top black professors, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson vowed yesterday to come to Cambridge to seek ''clarity'' on the school's diversity policy.

Seek Clarity?Shake them down,you mean.

[Howlin]

Summers, who insists he's been clear in his support of affirmative action, declined to comment.

I wonder how these Clinton leftovers are enjoying being skewered by their "own." Maybe he should just put some ice on it.

[YaYa123]

HA! Their arrogance is overwhelming. And so typically delusional of these goobers...exaggerating their own self-importance...and so in love with the sound of their own voices!!

Think how they must be suffering! The Clintons gone, President Bush in the White House, these people have been robbed of their stage, relegated to insignificance.

[bulldog905]

Jackson steps into Harvard dispute: Seeks 'clarity' on diversity policy

Seeks Clarity, huh?

If I was Brian Buckley, I would have nothing to do with the "Rev" Jackson!

[OldFriend]

Cornell West for three hours.......I consider 9-11-01 punishment enough for the next hundred years.

[leadpenny]

I consider 9-11-01 punishment enough for the next hundred years.

I know. I only posted the C-SPAN2 link because it had been scheduled before this latest controversy at Harvard. If West does show, it could provide for some firewords during the phone calls. It will definitely be a case of looking in on the enemy. If I'm around and think of it, I'll start a discussion thread on his appearance on the 6th.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Afro-American Studies" is a keyword for the mind meld of morons and Marxists.

Isn't that an oxymoron?

[b4its2late]

Look out Harvard,
I'm coming to town.
It's now your turn,
for the Jesse Jackson shakedown.....