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...Awareness and Action included strengthening the Afro-American Studies Department as a demand of last Monday's student boycott of classes, many students were skeptical about offering support. "Divestiture, now there's an issue to unite an entire student body," a Kirkland House sophomore said last week. "But Afro-Am? For most of us, it's just not our fight...
...meeting for students planning to concentrate in Afro-American Studies on April 7, the University showed its hand more clearly. The material in Afro-American Studies, members of the standing committee told students, would be under the control of departments outside Afro-Am. The only courses offered in the program would be tutorials: students considering an Afro-Am concentration would have to specify an "allied field" of concentration, in which they would then have to take additional tutorials. Effectively, then, the only way a student could concentrate in Afro-Am would be to major in another field and choose Afro...
...status of the Afro-Am Department is of major concern to all self-respecting members of the Harvard community. While continuing to help cripple the black community in South Africa, Harvard is now threatening ato cripple its own black community with the dissolution of the Afro-American Studies Dept. Indeed the boycott planned for Monday, April 23, 1979 to protest the racism that Harvard shows both at home and abroad is not "devoid of meaning," for the issues of divestiture and the Afro-Am Dept. are inter-related. To describe the threat to the department as a "hot issue...
...Dean Rosovsky, a man who opposed the creation of the Afro-Am Dept. in 1969 and still believes it should be a committee, has the ominous responsibility of making a decision about the department based on the evaluation of a Review Committee...
Given these facts can one assume that the Afro-Am Department will receive a fair shake from the Review Committee and/or Dean Rosovsky...