Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Association of African and Afro-American Students will be granted University recognition this afternoon or tomorrow, Dean Watson said yesterday...
...precise change which was made in the membership clause has not yet been announced, but two sources reported yesterday that the clause had been simply eliminated. Another possibility is that the words "African and Afro-American" have been dropped from the clause, which originally read. "Membership in the Association shall be open to African and Afro-American students currently enrolled at Harvard and Radcliffe...
...clause rejected by the Faculty Committee read, "Membership in the Association shall be open to African and Afro-American students currently enrolled at Harvard and Radcliffe." According to one informed source, the new clause will eliminate all reference to "African and Afro-American" as a criterion for membership...
...Association of African and Afro-American Students decided this week to modify its controversial membership clause, it was learned yesterday...
...through his words. Born in Damascus to the Greek Orthodox faith in an overwhelmingly Moslem environment (Aflak's father was a moderately successful grain merchant, and his mother, now 75, is still illiterate), Aflak got honors in history at the Sorbonne. In Paris he argued politics with other Afro-Asian students, read Marx, Nietzsche and Jefferson. He says, "I quickly found Marxism inadequate, based on materialism without human and spiritual values, without national consciousness. Nations are only large families, and the Arab family needs more than Marx. Thus we evolved the Baathist doctrine of socialism mingled with nationalism...