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Administrators say there was an element of appeasement in the foundation of the department. In his 1991 book The University: An Owner's Manual, Rosovsky likened the process, by which Afro-Am became a department to an "academic Munich"--a reference to the 1938 conference where the allied diplomats tried to appease Hitler...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III says the problem was that Afro-Am was established to appease students...
...think the issue broke down this way: did we want the highest academic standards or did we want Afro-Am supporters to feel that they were respected...
...while Afro-Am's poor record in its early years remains undisputed, there is some question as to whether the problems was a dearth of potential faculty or Harvard's lack of commitment to finding them...
Griffin also says the Afro-Am department wasonly possible because of a brief moment in time inwhich almost anything was possible...