December 13, 2002

Gates to Remain at Harvard; Yale's Provost Will Be First Woman to Lead U. of Cambridge Full Time

By PIPER FOGG and KATE GALBRAITH

GATES STAYS PUT: Harvard University has stopped the bleeding in its Afro-American-studies department. Henry Louis (Skip) Gates Jr., the department's head, said last week that he had turned down an offer from Princeton University to join two high-profile defectors, Cornel West and K. Anthony Appiah, who went to Princeton earlier this year.

Mr. Gates, 52, said he had wavered on his decision. The departures of Mr. West and Mr. Appiah, whom he called his best friends, were devastating for