<p>I would have to back Byerly up on this one--Cornel West was effectively fired in the gentlemanly way; he was forced to leave before things got nasty.</p>
<p>So you are a Harvard professor, filmxoxo17? I assumed you were either a Brearly or Dalton kid - with that hip urban liberal worldview.</p>
<p>Here's a link to an amusing skewering of West on the Crimson op-ed page. Note the author, who has since graduated and written a book about Harvard.</p>
<p>Byerly, surely there are more pressing things that a Harvard prof has to do other than getting into semantics with a seventeen year old girl? Not to sound like a teenager, but, get a life. :)
This is sort of embarassing. Just let it end here and maybe it won't look that bad. Someone failed their etiquette class...</p>
<p>additionally:
May I remind you, that the author of this amusing 'skewering' (how cute) article, is seemingly a fan of criticism. He also wrote a notorious article about your beloved Harvard. I think I'll take this with a grain of salt.
And I never said that Cornel West wasn't reviled, I was merely correcting an error you made. No matter how you look at it, he wasn't fired. So thats that.</p>
<p>This is going to sound really bad but who is Cornel West</p>
<p>Former harvard prof turned princeton professor. Mainly known for just being all around controversial and his political beliefs.</p>
<p>i'm a female and i was the first to question your strange punctuation. since i'm interested in correct punctuation, that makes me passive or easily intimidated? or have i been subjugated by men and am simply too absorbed with my materialistic, bmw-worshipping life to care? please. the pton thread was a lot more successful only because there weren't people like the op who made insulting assumptions.</p>
<p>West was not fired. He was a tenured professor. By definition this means that the President does not have to like his scholarship for him to retain his tenure. Summers may have wanted to get rid of him. Others may have felt the same way. Since he was tenured they could not fire him. </p>
<p>The sad part is that the only reason he left is that there were other places anxious to hire him. The true tenured losers can't get other jobs, so they stick around when everyone wants them out.</p>
<p>West was not fired. He was a tenured professor. By definition this means that the President does not have to like his scholarship for him to retain his tenure. Summers may have wanted to get rid of him. Others may have felt the same way. Since he was tenured they could not fire him. </p>
<p>The sad part is that the only reason he left is that there were other places anxious to hire him. The true tenured losers can't get other jobs, so they stick around when everyone wants them out.</p>
<p>sorry for the double post.</p>
<p>Nowhere did I say Cornel West was "fired"; rather, I said Summers and others "wanted him out." As a "University Professor", West repoorted only to the President, and only the President has the authority to award such a designation - which West gained courtesy of Summers' predecessor. </p>
<p>"University Professors" have an "annual review" - and it was during such a review that Summers "disrespected" Brother West about his lack of scholarship, his giving virtually all "A's" to students taking his classes, and other matters. Neither the Administration nor many faculty members were sad to see West go.</p>
<p>okay, i give in - whats up with the slashes??</p>
<p>Fair enough, ashligee. I'm not sure what you mean by "older posters with an agenda"--it kind of seems to me like you are the one with an agenda. Regardless, I'm not going to waste my time trying to change your opinion. </p>
<p>But I guess I won't be seeing you in Harvard Yard anytime soon!</p>
<p>possibly symbolic of slash fiction, so titled because of the usage of "/", first appearing in feminist fanzines in the 1970's. Source: wikipedia, dictionary.com</p>
<p>after trying some google searches, that was the only result that kind of made sense.</p>
<p>Why do these feminazis use a backslash if the feminazi fanzines used a forwardslash? That seems odd.</p>
<p>this thread is hilarious, what with byerly's fanaticism and the use of the slashes</p>
<p>one should do a sociological study of the dynamic of these posts</p>
<p>The backslash in our title reminds us to ask continually how feminist and queer studies have arisen in close relationship, of union, tension, and antagonism; and, under what conditions feminist and queer studies will link. -off of syllabus of professor scott morgensen of macalester
women's and gender studies 200. this is another possibility.</p>
<p>or, the slash is meant to negate the poster's usage of the possessive apostrophe. apparently, there is some objection to it in feminist writings.</p>
<p>There's some definite backslash backlash going on here. ;)</p>
<p>ironically, when i googled backslash, i did get some results for backlash.</p>
<p>also googled slant, slash, virgule, solidus.</p>
<p>oh the powers of google.</p>
<p>... the objection to the possessive apostrophe is its relationship to the sperm; I am unclear whether it is merely a similarity in appearance, or some historic evolution.</p>