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...Monday afternoon, 10 students met with President Derek C. Bok in his office to discuss the future of the beleaguered Afro-American Studies Department...
When Bok and two other administrators abruptly left the meeting--saying that demands for six new appointments by February were completely unrealistic--the five students who were Afro-Am concentrators staged a two-hour sit-in at Bok's office...
...that BSA disagreed with the Afro-Am concentrators' cause. Quite the contrary: BSA has always been a strong advocate of increased hiring of Black faculty...
...course, the whole idea of a sit-in took BSA by surprise. According to Nelson, the Afro-Am concentrators didn't officially tell BSA about the the sit-in until the meeting had begun...
...this narrow committee will select a president who will use his or her office to advocate a national solar energy plan, pollution source reduction, parental leave, or even open and regular office hours for students, as the Princeton president has? And what will the fate be of the decrepit Afro-Am Department in the hands of Harvard's corporate cardinals? Will Harvard's laboratories perform science for the people, or continue into the next century with science for profit...