Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ensure implementation of the Rosovsky Report on Afro-American Studies, the Committee of Afro-American Studies be reconstituted to consist of equal numbers of prospective concentrators and Afro members, to be joined by all tenured and non-tenured professors of Afro-American Studies...
...expansion could not obtain significant additional student support, and that therefore a moderate-radical coalition based on the need to restructure the University should be formed. The weekend has shown, however, the student support for the radical demands is large and rapidly growing. The Association of African and Afro-American students, a substantial group of teaching fellows, and majorities of students in several Houses have supported essentially similar radical demands. If this support continues to grow, the fight against ROTC and expansion...
WITH CHARACTERISTIC ineptitude, the Corporation yesterday announced its own plan for restructuring University decision-making. It created a body of students and Faculty to advise President Pusey in such crises as the one he faced Wednesday night. This 68-man Duma, which includes no members of SDS or Afro, was created in a transparent effort to shore up the C0orporation's weakening image among campus moderates, and to legitimize the President's reactions to future crises...
...five drafters of the second demands emphasized yesterday that they are not calling a separate teaching fellows strike. They do, however, which are on the agenda of today's Soldiers' Field meeting. Afro and a splinter section of the Mem church group have adopted their demands. SDS and House representatives rejected them at separate meetings yesterday...
...record of Harvard's readiness to listen to--and act on--demands for change is persuasive evident that the student confrontation was wilfully (sic) sought, not to reform but to destroy. In every area from the institution of a pioneering major in Afro-American studies to termination of academic credit for membership in the Reserve Officers Training Corps, Harvard showed not only an awareness of the need for change but did change...