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There seems to be some misunderstanding of the issue of Afro-Am Department's status at Harvard (Charlotte Salomon's letter of April 18, 1979 to The Crimson...
Student reaction to the planned boycott has been mixed. "I know I support divestiture, but I don't think I know enough about the Afro-Am problem." one student said yesterday, voicing a common sentiment. Another student said she thought a boycott was a good way to show student support for the two demands...
Smith drew the greatest audience response as he spoke without notes, quoting from Karl Marx and Malcolm X. He told white students in the audience not to be dissuaded from taking Afro-Am courses simply because they would be a minority in the classroom...
...campus--Monday's proposed boycott of classes in support of both South African divesture and the Afro-American Studies Department. Taking a moral stance on racial apartheid in South Africa, certainly one concern of international importance, is one thing, but placing it on the same level as the Afro-Am debate leaves the boycott devoid of any meaning and, rather, turns it into a farcical imitation of the 1969 strike...
...Afro-Am Department is evaluated by a respected and racially-balanced committee who finds it lacking in academic merit, then Harvard is justified in changing the department. This is not evidence of Harvard's lack of concern for minority needs...