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...When the Afro-Am executive committee turned down her request--a move she said would "imperil" her $77,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant--Wright filed a complaint with the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EOEC) and threatened to sue the University, charging that it had discriminated against her on the basis of race...
Wright's complaint is not that she was denied tenure, but that the Afro-Am executive committee turned down her request for the extension, which she says the committee routinely grants...
Under the grievance procedure guidelines. Wright may choose one member to the three-member hoc committee that will hear her complaint. Dean Rosvsky and Nathan Huggins, chairman of the Afro-Am department. select the other two committee members. But the committee rejected as "inappropriate" Wright's choice of Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies, and asked Wright to select someone else...
...representatives were invited to address a regular class meeting of Afro-Am 142, but because of "wide interest" in the panel, the class was moved to a larger classroom in Sever Hall, Harrington W. Benjamin, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, said yesterday...
...representatives said they expect more than 200 students to attend the event which will feature speeches from two Black professors and a Black alumnus of the Afro-Am department...