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discuss any more appeals,” said Neal. ‘This incident is the last straw in a series of events where I and other students have been harassed on campus and 1 am simply not going to take it anymore. As a student, I have rights and they are being violated.” Mitzi Martin, an attorney for Dean Williamson, said the court issued the temporary protective order based solely on Neal’s allegations and that it’s not appropriate for seminary officials to comment about legal proceedings or academic issues related to any CTS student or faculty member. A hearing scheduled for

Tuesday will determine if those allegations are justified and warrant a permanent order. “That hearing is the appropriate forum for Dean Williamson to respond to Mr. Neal’s allegations,” said Martin. Neal and others cannot understand how an appeal process could result in a physical and verbal altercation at an institution that is supposed to teach Christian principles. To help resolve matters, a group of concerned city residents formed “The Committee for Charles Neal,” with a goal to bring Neal into dialogue with CTS officials. The group has been unsuc-

cessful. “What has been going on at CTS is ridiculous,” said Pat Payne a member of the committee. In the meantime, Neal continues to conduct his six-week old silent protest inside the CTS chapel every week — choosing to pray during the service, rather than commune and fellowship with his fellow classmates and faculty members. “It makes no sense to me what is going on, but I am going to fight this,” said Neal. “I have to, for how can I fight and lead a congregation through tough times, if I cannot do it in my own life.”

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Cornel West leaves Harvard for Princeton

By THEODORE CROSS Editor of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Over the past weekend Princeton University announced that Afri-can-American scholarComel West will rejoin the faculty as Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion. The announcement has been expected for a number of monthsfollowing a widely publicized incident in Cambridge last October in which Harvard President Lawrence Summers questioned the quality of West’s scholarship as well as his dedication to teaching. The decision of West to come to Princeton, after a similar move by Harvard philosopher K. Anthony Appiah several weeks ago, adds tremendous strength to Princeton’s African-American studies program. This coming fall Princeton’s effort will become one of the leading programs in the nation. But another issue emerges. This is the effect of Cornel West’s departure on Harvard’s ability to attract the top-quality college-bound African-American students that Harvard College has always been able to recruit in the past. West’s course, introduction to Afro-American Studies, has been the second most popular course at Harvard College. This past year enrollment in West’s Introduction to Afro-American Studies class nearly doubled from the previous year when he was on leave. And demand was so great that Harvard students were obliged to sit in the aisles and on the floorof the lecture hall. The question now is whether the departure of two star attractions— Professors Appiah and West — will erode the edge Harvard has enjoyed in attracting the best and the brightest of the nation's young African-American students. Already Harvard’s claim on the most gifted young Black first-year college students has begun to erode.

In fact this was occurring prior to the arrival of Summers. But now the decline appears to be accelerating. At Princeton and Stanford the Black student yield is now close to that at Harvard. This year, Blacks make up 10 percent of the firstyear class at Stanford and 9.5 percent of the first-year class at Princeton. The freshman class at Harvard is 7.1 percent Black. This is a 21 percent decline since 1993. There is a further question as to whether Harvard’s admissions yield on the black students it chooses to accept will be damaged by President Summers’ wobbly position on the importance of racial diversity on the Harvard campus as well as by his apparently unfavorable view of the role of black studies at a great research university. Now many commentators wonder whether Harvard’s AfroAmerican studies department chairman Henry Louis Gates Jr. will sit tight in Cambridge and, with newly

energized defensive backing from Summers, work to rebuild Harvard’s so-called dream team, or whether Gates too will head to Princeton. A Princeton press release stated that West “will return to Princeton as the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion.” It appears that the word “University” did not creep into the Princeton press release by accident. In the past Princetqn has avoided hierarchal academic rankings. All senior faculty held equal standing. This is contrary to the practice of Harvard and Columbia where the “University Professor” title conveys huge prestige, special academic privileges, and lessened teaching responsibilities. Now it appears that Princeton too is creating a “University” category and that it is awarding “University” status to West. West held the lofty title of University Professor at Harvard.

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