Search Details

Word: afro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...When people see the shanties on the Green, they don't think `divestment' anymore. They think about when those ugly things are going to be taken away," said Joseph Leake, president of the Dartmouth Afro-American Society...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Dartmouth's Carnival of Protest | 2/12/1986 | See Source »

...shanties set off a whole lot of issues related to racism," says DCD member Menon. The moratorium was the stage for a variety of student groups--women, homosexuals, and racial minorities--to denounce intolerance. "At the moratorium, everyone had their own personal agenda," says Leake of the Afro-American Society...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Dartmouth's Carnival of Protest | 2/12/1986 | See Source »

While seniors write theses for many reasons--including amusement--one fact remains true from Afro-American Studies to VES: motivation and interest must accompany the lengthy task. Otherwise, a senior wonders forever why he spent his final Saturday nights of college in front of the word processor or in the library...

Author: By Eugenia Balodimas, | Title: Honors Seniors Start to Summa-Up College | 12/14/1985 | See Source »

During the five years following the first student protests, Harvard tenured four Black faculty members--in the last 10 years, it has added only two. Furthermore, 15 years after its violent birth, the Afro-American Studies Department continues as an impoverished ghetto, lacking crucial resources and faculty. Its current anemia is less the product of feeble inception than malnourished neglect...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Not Just an Academic Question | 11/26/1985 | See Source »

...greatest insults was offering a Core course of 'Africa.' There's no way you can cover a continent in a semester," says Parson. The BSA wants to revitalize the Afro-American Studies program and increase the number of minority-related courses in the Core...

Author: By Janet A. Sachs, | Title: Divestment's Not the Only Show in Town | 10/24/1985 | See Source »

Previous | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | Next