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Franklin W. Knight, professor of history at Johns Hopkins, and Lawrence W. Levine, professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, both decided last week not to accept tenure in Afro-Am. Nathan I. Huggins, Columbia professor of history, is reported close to declining the position, Freeman and Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology and another committee member, said yesterday...
Freeman said two Afro-Am professors will be on leave next year, causing a shortage of professors in the department...
...blame does not rest entirely with the students, however. The executive committee which runs the Afro-Am Department rarely met with students, ignored their suggestions, and failed to inform students of the progress of the search, creating an atmosphere hospitable to rumors and panic. Better communication would help head off protests like this in the future...
Ewart Guinier '33, the only professor at Harvard tenured solely in Afro-Am. told the crowd that both President Bok and Dean Rosovsky want to "destroy the department...
...want the right to self determination," Ricardo Guthrie '80, another speaker, said, adding Afro-Am concentrators have always been active in the department's policy making, and had been a major force in its formation...