Word: ackermans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kilson's amendment requiring joint concentrations was narrowly defeated last January. One of the amendments's opponents, James S. Ackerman, Professor of Fine Arts, said at the time that telling a Department how to run its affairs would make that Department second-class. Nevertheless, talk of requiring Afro concentrators to master a "core discipline" remains part of the Afro debate...
That committee, headed by James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, also recommended that the Faculty establish full credit courses in the practicing arts...
...mayor of Cambridge is CCA-endorsed Barbara Ackerman, a Smith alumna and housewife with ten years of elective municipal posts behind her. She chaired the City's Committee on Transportation which successfully battled the State Department of Public Works over several unsightly gargantuan expressways that would have exacerbated the city's housing crisis...
...rare move, President Bok intervened in the debate and asked Kilson to define a concentration. Kilson later termed Bok's question "a tendentious interjection." James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, then offered the most telling objection to the motion by arguing that the Faculty had no business telling a department how to organize its curriculum...
...Ackerman's argument was apparently persuasive, as the motion was defeated narrowly. In comparison to the 1969 vote on establishing an Afro- American Studies Department, there was little Faculty interest this year. In 1969 over 400 Faculty members turned out for the Loeb meeting. The turnout this year was below 170. Few Faculty members seemed interested in the debate and even fewer seemed to have any knowledge of the controversy despite the attention it has generated over the past two years...