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Now They've Gone Too Far
According to Iowahawk, the academic fraud epidemic is approaching critical mass.
Consider:
...the ongoing feud between Harvard President Lawrence O'Neill and star African-American Studies professor Cornell West. Last year West threatened to lead an exodus of Harvard's black faculty to Princeton after O'Neill obliquely criticized West's recording of a hip hop album.
According to sources, O'Neill accused West of being a "punkass newjack sucka MC," having "whack flow" and "not representin.'"
West angrily defended his rapping skills, retorting that "Tha C-dog be rollin' hard and gots his shizit on point" and that he was a "Ninja on the mic." He accused O'Neill of jealousy and sexual impotence, noting that "old punk fool can't get no fly hos like the C-dog."
The bitterness over the incident has subsided, but tempers flared briefly when West, O'Neill and their posses crossed paths in Harvard Square after a faculty hydraulic car-bouncing competition.
and
"Unlike that old adage about doers-versus-teachers, I have marketable skills outside academics," says Agee.
"If worst comes to worst," he explains, "there's always journalism."
Posted by Rand Simberg at March 18, 2002 02:23 PM
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I know that you aren't this guy's fact-checker, but Larry Summers is the Harvard president's name. I also know it is a joke, but I suspect that the name thing is just ignorance (in the non-pejorative sense).
Posted by Paul Orwin at March 19, 2002 11:17 AM
Well, thanks to you, apparently I am (his fact checker). I emailed him about it, and he's going to try to get the editor at CNS to fix it.
BTW, Paul, I've added your page down in the "Space/Science" blogs section.
Posted by Rand Simberg at March 19, 2002 12:50 PM
It may have been deliberate, as O'Neill was Summers' successor as Treasury Secretary.
Posted by Ron Binns at March 20, 2002 10:44 PM
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