Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last spring, the Foundation had reached the stage where almost no one publicly believed in its viability besides Gomes and Bok. The students who had sparked discussion about the project wanted no part of it. Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, thought it unnecessary, saying the effort to improve race relations should be directed through the House system. Faculty conservatives thought it unwise, saying it might aggravate race relations...
...Faculty meeting. Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, said the University could best improve race relations through existing institutions, such as the Houses, rather than through a Foundation...
Jackie Torrence, originally out of Granite Quarry, N.C., gives Appalachian Mountain tales her own Earth Mother Afro twist. Eyes rolling, hands fluttering, laughter spilling up and over, she can jolly an audience as nobody else. But watch out for the little sting afterward! Uncle Remus is not safe in her company. When she turns into a frog, warning of the approach of Br'er Rabbit, lily pads a mile away tremble at Torrence's harrumph...
This emerging group of three women and two men are 30 or under. Each had the opportunity to work with young composers. Over the campus came the cries of tortured pianos and punished brass. Exotic instruments punctuated classes in Afro-American, jazz and a variety of modern dance disciplines. The Erick Hawkins technique had students working on the floor of an old gymnasium to the music of Chinese gongs, while others moaned in the transports of "deep muscle therapy." Even professional critics engaged in feisty controversies at the A.D.F. commissary, the Barre. And when attention turned to the six evenings...
October 2--Dean Rosovsky dissolves the Afro-American faculty search committee. Citing the committee's inability to find any new members, Rosovsky says that a "new approach" is needed...