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...Kennedy also explained her personal involvement in the Feminist party, and advocated that Black women stay out of the party, as the unity of Black people is a more important priority. She did not blast the Afro-Am and Women's Studies, as Lemann implied, but criticized Harvard's treatment of these areas of study as "outrageous" and "disgraceful...
...general impression at the University (even among some Black students) that Afro-Am courses are guts. In reality there are few guts in the department. Three courses I looked into for this year had heavier reading lists than my seminar, plus papers and-or exams...
...whatsoever. One would have to go to SDSers to find the militant group here. The department made no stand on Herrnstein, and the recent protest concerning Gulf Oil was initiated by a group of students outside of both the department and HRACC, and has little to do with the AFro-Am department "ideology." The "ideology" of the Afro-American Department deals with AFro-Americans. Would Kilson have it deal with white society and customs...
Black students and faculty are aware of Kilson's ideology, but for some reason whites have never come to grips with his position. Indeed, Prof. Kison is entitled to his opinion and his professorship in the Government department, yet so are Blackss entitled to study Ibo or AFro-Am lit, or Liberation Politics without being told they are satisfying "emotional need." Kilson is convinced that "Afro-Am" means second class. Tell me, Sir, do you also back Herrnstein's theory? Or is it that you fear falling under the Afro-American Studies department if indeed it passes review? June Cross...
MECHA and PRSU representatives met with Dunlop on Monday to discuss reinstituting Afro-Am 105 as a regular course, Dunlop agreed that if Reyes completes his thesis this Fall can teach the second semester of the course...