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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT before this Fall's Yale game--in which only one black player suited up for Harvard--the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students issued an anxious statement. The Rosovsky Committee, which Dean Ford had appointed last April to look into the role of Afro-American studies here, was winding up its investigations, and reports that had filtered out of the committee were not encouraging...
...statement, the Ad Hoc Committee once more presented the case for the creation of a whole new department at Harvard--a department of Afro-American studies. The statement avoided any allusion to Rosovsky, but the intent was clear: disturbed by rumors that Rosovsky committee was going to recommend some compromise--like an expansion of course offerings--the black students wanted to make a final plea for a unified Afro-American department...
...fundamentally parasitic on the oppression of others are disastrous. For in that case your strategy will be to placate those who have what you regard is real complaints, and get rid of the "tiny minority" (as Ford calls us) who are simply "agitators." And that is essentially what the Ad Board tried to do, and was stopped, perhaps with its own collusion, by some combination of votes, the precise components of which will never be known...
Further evidence of intimidation, the NUC claimed, was that the Ad Board sent a copy of the letter to each student's department chairman...
...says that this passage implies that the Ad Board will have "unlimited powers of judgment" in determining what "obstructing" means. "'Obstructing' could include any dissenting action," NUC says, "whether this be giving all A's to contest the grading system, or burning down the ROTC building...