Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administration has rewarded coercive methods every time they were used. Last year, a visiting economics professor was subjected to an investigation of allegedly racist remarks he had made in class, after black students took over an economics department office. This year, demands for an effectively black-controlled Center for Afro-American Studies were met following a series of semiviolent and disruptive demonstrations. Months later, three alumni recruiting for the Chase Manhattan Bank were ousted by administrators faced by an angry and destructive mob. No students have been punished for such acts...
Here is both tragedy and travesty. An Afro-American musical idiom is today not just the music of the Negro young. It is the music of the young of all colors -and not only the young-around the world. This is an area where black and white meet on congenial terms and where the vitality and high quality of the Negro contribution is unquestioned. It is an area of great opportunity-and because the opportunity is so great, it is also an area of inescapable responsibility...
...expanded committee will "nominate the first four to six appointments, two of which must be tenured," according to the Afro proposal approved by the Faculty on April...
...Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies (AAS) met Wednesday morning for the first time since its seven-Faculty membership was expanded last month to include six students...
...Afro chose its representatives sometime after the AAS meeting and presented its choices to Mason yesterday. The three Afro members on the committee are Myles V. Lynk '70, Mark D. Smith '72, and Afro president Leslie F. Griffin...