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Perhaps the University has been reluctant to take action because of the failure during the early '70s of the Afro-American Cultural Center. Established in the wake of student protest, the Afro-Am center foundered and died, because administrators hesitated to make a large-scale financial commitment. When students lost their initial enthusiasm and the center fell on hard times, the incentives for maintaining it were fatally weakened...
Kathy Guy, a junior at Yale active in governance of the Afro-Am center, calls the center "necessary. "It's important at a predominately white school to establish an identity--it's not that we necessarily want to form a separate group, but we have unique clesires and needs that the university cannot provide for," Guy says...
...that the facility would prove an "option" for nonminority students as well. Jackson says, "We don't view the proposal as our own little island. A Third World center would be neutral ground for the entire University community." But Romney says whites at Yale have not fully accepted the Afro-Am center. "There's a lot of resentment--essentially, the issue is a primitive one. White students resent "Black students on campus...
...part, Huggins says he doesn't "find Afro-Am an either/or proposition--it is a study of Africans in the new world principally, but not exclusively. We're naturally interested in African culture and society. We're interested necessarily in the Caribbean, and perhaps in Latin America for comparative purposes." But, Huggins adds quickly, "No program can take the world as its field. Africa is a very rich field in itself. I do not see us becoming an African studies department...
...When students discover it's possible to develop skills that will serve them in the future, that's how we'll get our concentrators," Huggins adds. No matter what, Afro-Am faces a watershed year. The bristling skepticism about the Afro-Am Department on campus is rooted in a history of tension and controversy, and it will be a while before officials can dispel doubts about the future. And no matter what, all eyes will focus on the placid figure of Nathan Huggins, who has just sat down in the hottest of hot seats...