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Issacs is suing Harvard for discrimination, alleging that he was passed over for tenure in Afro-Am in 1975 because he is Ethiopian and Black. Harvard maintains that the department had no need for a specialist in his field, African religions and languages...
Some such contested interpretations are included in the report itself. Certainly not all students would agree with the report's self-congratulatory assertion that the Afro-Am Department has begun to "Fulfill the Faculty's original copies, and even to surpass them." Many students question that department's relative weakness in African languages and literature, for example. Similarly at least some minority students believe and adviser for minority concerns would be an essential resource for the special problems they face at Harvard, and would in no way represent a triumph of separatism. Perhaps most notably, minority groups and the administration...
...Many of the specific victories of 1969 have disappeared. The Faculty quietly took away student power in the Afro-Am Department last year. The committee the Faculty set up to bypass its in adequate disciplinary methods developed into the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, a political disciplinary group with a catch-all constitution used primarily for suppressing student protest. The new flexibility of the president who succeeded Pusey proved to be less substantive than procedural. Students are allowed a voice, now, through student-faculty committees and even, as the University's non-reaction during the 1972 occupation of Mass Hall...
Isaac's supporters claim Harvard's failure to grant him tenure stemmed from the University's decision to restrict the scope of the Afro-Am department to exclude Isaac's fields of African study...
...members also discussed plans to support the Boston mayoral campaign of Melvin King, a local Black politician to bolster the Afro-American Studies Department, and to raise court fees for the discrimination case of Ephraim Isaccs, a former Afro-Am professor who was denied tenure at Harvard...