Former Clinton Treasury Secretary and New Harvard Prez Larry Summers may have succeeded in ridding Harvard of the Rappin’ Prof, Afro-American Studies Dept Prince, Cornel West. The Boston Globe is reporting that West is pissed off at Summers and is considering flying the Crimson coop to peddle his peculiar brand of divisive jargoneering and silly sociology at Princeton, instead. The paper points to a summer meeting between Summers, West, and members of West’s department:

In the meeting, according to senior faculty members who spoke with the Globe, Summers 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. He 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.

On a related note…a few weeks ago, Matt Labash in The Weekly Standard wrote a hilarious review of West’s debut rap album, definitely worth an out loud read…

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