Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moll says he is perplexed about the social problems which Harvard and Radcliffe raise for the African student...
...liberal college community like this," he explains, "Africans are popular, but sometimes popular for the wrong reasons rather than for the right ones. Africans are often 'used' here; they tend to become status symbols. Cliffies especially treat them as symbols of their own worldliness and liberalism. Some feel that to be seen walking or dating one impresses the local community, and the fact that he is an African may just add more glamor to it. Free speech, free this, free that, is expected here, but it can throw curve balls...
...mammoth task of selecting ASPAU scholars begin in the fall of each year when newspaper advertisements and radio spots invite applications. Preliminary processing is handled by field representatives of the African-American Institute who weed out applicants who have not attained a minimum standard in local high schools. The Institute also administers a specially designed College Board examination which further narrows the field...
...American ASPAU representatives spends a month in Africa, traveling in pairs to interview students in the capital city of their country. (Moll left the day before yesterday.) The two ASPAU admissions officers, plus one representative from the Agency for International Development, sit on a board with about a dozen African government officials and educators of the particular nation. This board interviews two or three times as many applicants as there are places available and makes recommendations to the final selection committee in America...
...When they (African students) first come over here they are terribly suspicious," Moll says. "They cannot believe that there are no strings attached, that we do not want to get anything out of them. We had been making progress in relaxing those suspicions. Then all of a sudden--Boom! Things have changed a bit. It tears us up. We've been set back." One of the main questions he will be asking while in Africa this month is how great the impact of the CIA disclosures has been on African government officials formerly friendly to American scholarship programs...