Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...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...
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...
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...
...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...