West rails agains 'new McCarthyism'

Controversial Princeton African-American Studies professor Cornel West argued that the "corporatization" of the American university is obstructing freedom of thought last Friday in a conference which addressed concerns that too many colleges are giving mere lip service to issues of diversity. Peppering his speech with humor and speaking in forceful oratory style, the animated West chronicled the public debacle between himself and Harvard President Larry Summers to a crowd spilling out of Collis Commonground.