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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...states that the controversial Afro-American department has begun to "fulfill" and even "surpass" its original goals...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Minority Leaders Question Dean's Annual Report | 4/26/1984 | See Source »

...ugliness of Mr. Kenyatta's behavior, cowardly acquiesced in by Afro-American students associated with BALSA, is especially shocking, in light of Black Americans long and bitter experience with racist victimization and brutalization. It is hard to believe that Mr. Kenyatta's and BALSA's knowledge of this experience is so shallow and unsophisticated that they could transform the occasion of the PLO's UN representative's talk into one of the vilest assaults on the norms of fairness and free speech to occur at Harvard in many years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Condemnation | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...Many of the specific victories of 1969 have disappeared. The Faculty quietly took away student power in the Afro-Am Department last year. The committee the Faculty set up to bypass its in adequate disciplinary methods developed into the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, a political disciplinary group with a catch-all constitution used primarily for suppressing student protest. The new flexibility of the president who succeeded Pusey proved to be less substantive than procedural. Students are allowed a voice, now, through student-faculty committees and even, as the University's non-reaction during the 1972 occupation of Mass Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1969 The Mood Then... | 4/11/1984 | See Source »

...student protest on campus, and with the memory of the 1968 Columbia University riots still fresh in their minds, the Faculty votes to remove academic credit from Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) courses and faculty rank from ROTC instructors. They also agree to set up a standing committee on Afro-American Studies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Power to the People' | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

April 18--The Corporation accepts the Faculty resolution on ROTC and agrees to grant amnesty to the occupiers of the building, to relocate any low-income tenants displaced by Harvard expansion, and to allow student input into discussions about setting up an Afro-American Studies Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Power to the People' | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

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