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Earlier in the month, when two other scholars--Lawrence W. Levine, professor of history at University of California-Berkeley, and Franklin W. Knight, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University--rejected appointment offers solely in Afro-Am, members of the executive committee which had recommended the three appointments said Huggins had turned down the same offer also. But when the University agreed to Huggins' request to be appointed in both Afro-Am and History, he reconsidered...
...History Department voted "overwhelmingly" to accept him, Wallace T. MacCaffrey, chairman of the department, said this week. Huggins' courses will be listed as Afro-Am courses but History concentrators will be able to count them as well...
Huggins added he sees nothing wrong with joint tenure in Afro-Am and another department as long as the professor is seriously dedicated to the field. Joint tenure will not be a prerequisite for future appointments, both Huggins and Dean Rosovsky said earlier in the week...
Despite past student opposition to joint appointments, concentrators at a rally in support of Afro-Am on Tuesday said they were pleased he was coming, although more needed to be done to strengthen the department...
Aaron A. Estis '80, an Afro-Am concentrator, said the appointment was "one step forward for two steps backward" since Ewart Guinier, the only professor tenured solely in Afro-Am, retired last semester, and K. Onwuka Dike, the only tenured professor specializing in African history, will return to Nigeria next year...