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Rally organizers hope to encourage freshmen to major in Afro-Am, which has seen a rapid decline in concentrators in recent years...
...tenure denial as discrimination, and part of a concerted effort of the department to root out Africanists. They say that the Isaacs case is a crucial opportunity to force the department to study the African side as well. A leader of the alumni committee has said that limiting Afro-Am's focus to events since the slaves arrived in America implies Blacks are a slave people's and works against Third World unity by obscuring Black people's roots. With the History Department's recent decision not to fill its chair in African studies next year--a decision which will...
...BELIEVE that granting tenure to Prof. Isaacs might be a good way of meeting this need for Africanists in Afro-Am. And we agree with those who suggest a role for a greater student voice. While any department must seek to maintain its academic integrity, we do not believe a formal student voice on policy questions would be antithetical to this goal. This is particularly true in Afro-Am, the only Harvard department with an outside committee of scholars to decide on tenure decisions. If there is such a strong need for the opinions of outside scholars, certainly there...
...Afro-Am at Harvard cannot help but be affected by academic politics. The department would not exist were it not for the students who protested so loudly for its formation, and it will no doubt need strong student support in the future to hold the administration to its commitment to the department, Afro-Am should encourage these students who seek a greater role. Amid the raging academic debates about Afro-Am as a department and the University's commitment to it, we believe that these very students will turn out to be the department's best friends...
...members planning the rally said its chief goal is to correct misconceptions people have about Afro-Am. "I think the consciousness has to be raised," Karen Walker '84, a joint concentrator in the department said yesterday, adding she does not think that the student body as a whole fully appreciates the value of Afro-Am. "I would like to see people think of it as a place of scholarship," she said...