Reply #25: I ended up dropping his class [View All]

[sir_captain]

because it ended up getting taught by another professor. He may have been sick--if that's what he says, I;m certainly willing to take him at his word. On the other hand, if he was too sick to miss an entire year of class, which he did at one point, I don't understand how he was well enough to fly to Australia and film a fairly sizable role in two Matrix films...something doesn't sit right there with me.

I agree with you about Summers--he is most definitely an ass. But he was not at all dismissive of his scholarship--the point was that he asked him to spend more time *working* on his scholarship--the very thing that he was appreciated for. And of course, since Summers is his boss, I think he was well within his rights to do that. Yes, I think it was inappropriate for Prof. West to go public with an internal matter and do interviews on it with every media outlet he could find--if nothing else, it showed that he has a very thin skin.

In any case, I told Kanary I'd stop hijacking the thread, so I should honor that. If you want to continue discussing this, why don't you PM me?