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Rosovsky, who was chairman of the special committee that reported on African and Afro-American Studies in January, said that his resignation came as a result of the Faculty's vote on Tuesday to change the structure of the AAS department.
The plan the Faculty approved on Tuesday asks that six students be given voting seats on the Standing Committee--whose powers include nominating the AAS department's first four to six Faculty members.
Rosovsky also said that the Faculty's vote showed that most Faculty members disagreed with him on another aspect of his original recommendations--the possibility for student participation in developing the AAS department.
Although most of the Faculty members who spoke against the new AAS plan on Tuesday argued that it would set a precedent for other departments, Rosovsky said that his action was "not motivated by academic conservatism." Instead, it came from a "belief that basic changes in educational policy should be...
The six students who will join the Standing Committee will probably be seated early next month. Three of the students will be chosen from potential AAS concentrators, and three will be from the Association of African and Afro-American Students (Afro). Mason said last night that he understood that the...