Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creation of a standing committee on Afro-American studies, to develop a degree program for students starting with the class...
Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economics and chairman of the special committee that investigated Afro-American studies last Fall, will present three resolutions asking...
...hiring ten Faculty members in Afro-American studies by next Fall...
...objectionably narrow in conception as well as frighteningly numb to its racist overtones, and it is fortunate that Bruening acknowledged the mistakes and cancelled the seminar. Had he chosen not to yield to his critics though, the course should have been given--not cancelled by force as the Afro demonstrators promised Friday it would be. One bad course would do far less damage than the precedent that a course's point of view opens it to suppression by those in the community who find that point of view objectionable...
...Planning 11-3b could be cancelled by force, are all courses that flirt with mechanisms for social control unacceptable? Professors Banfield and Wilson don't analyze riots the same way most Afro members do. Could parts of their urban policy courses then be censored too? The only present check on the content of Harvard courses--review by the relevant Faculty or department--is rarely used, and though a few bad courses may result, there are not so many as to justify changing Harvard's general policy of letting individual Faculty members teach what they want...