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...Foregone Conclusion Award: to Charles V. Willie's "Af-Am 193w: Contribution of Black Colleges to Higher Education in the United States." Willie also finished dead last in the highly contested Vaguest Course Title category (a.k.a. the Social Studies Prize...
...were walking through the Square," says Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., of friend and Class Day speaker Quincy Jones. "We were walking toward the Af-Am department and right in front of CVS, he says, 'Stop. You hear that? That kid'"--a young drummer in front of the Coop--"'is really, really talented.' And Quincy went over to the kid...and asked him for his name and said he would give him a call...
Since the course was an elective for me, I wanted an engaging class with an enthusiastic professor, but I came to feel that Af-Am 137y is not Professor Gates' priority. He has published four books in the last year; and in addition to chairing the African-American studies department, he is also the editor of Transition and writes prolifically for The New Yorker. How could he have the time to juggle all of these projects and simultaneously devote a lot of energy and hours of preparation to a class whose subject he knows inside out? Better yet, should...
Educational crossfire also hit two interdisciplinary majors: Afro-American Studies and Women's Studies. A coalition of concerned student groups this year led protests against what they say as systematic attempts to weaken the Afro-American Studies Department. Ever since Af-Am's stormy birth ten years ago, detractors have attacked its academic validity. They believe Af-Am has no methodology and could better be studied through an interdisciplinary committee. But supporters say the demotion to a committee would cripple Af-Am by removing its right to tenure professors and choose its own curriculum. This fall an Overseers' Visiting Committee...