<p>The Boston Globe columnist (and recent Brown grad)who is the principal local Harvard basher and designated mouthpiece for campus leftists, is floating a trial balloon: is the coast now clear for the return of that blowhard, Cornel West? </p>
<p>There are those (including your humble servant) who feel that Summers' single greatest achievement was brooming this fraud out the door and getting Princeton to assume his long-term contract. Now a scary prospect indeed rears its head:</p>
<p>"SOME SEEK A SCHOLAR'S RETURN</p>
<p>Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff Date: June 6, 2006</p>
<p>With Harvard University president Lawrence H. Summers about to exit, some professors are planning an effort to woo back celebrity scholar Cornel West, who decamped to Princeton after Summers assailed his scholarship and teaching...."</p>
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<p>Byerly, I personally don't agree with the hiring of Cornel West, but at the same time, I don't think Summers should have addressed West individually, given that he didn't know about West's subject. Summers didn't research within the African American Studies department before talking to West. Additionally, Summers talked to West not soon after West's bestselling book was published and released. I strongly disagree with the printing of the book, but tactically, it was a better idea to keep West.</p>
<p>Summers was not a good administrator. He ruffled the feathers of a liberal faculty, and, quite frankly, made little political difference. The faculty's opinions did not cease to be "politically correct." Summer was an outlier. And so, I don't think there will be much change after Summer's departure.</p>