Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT before this Fall's Yale game--in which only one black player suited up for Harvard--the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students issued an anxious statement. The Rosovsky Committee, which Dean Ford had appointed last April to look into the role of Afro-American studies here, was winding up its investigations, and reports that had filtered out of the committee were not encouraging...
...statement, the Ad Hoc Committee once more presented the case for the creation of a whole new department at Harvard--a department of Afro-American studies. The statement avoided any allusion to Rosovsky, but the intent was clear: disturbed by rumors that Rosovsky committee was going to recommend some compromise--like an expansion of course offerings--the black students wanted to make a final plea for a unified Afro-American department...
...misunderstanding of the Rosovsky committee's purpose was an old one. When Ford named the members in April, he merely charged them with "investigating the place" of Afro-American studies in the Harvard curriculum. But members of the newly-formed Ad Hoc Committee said then that they had an informal agreement with Ford that the committee was going to lay the groundwork for an Afro-American department...
When the Rosovsky report finally appeared last week, the speculation ended abruptly. The report recommended a degree-granting program in Afro-American studies. But the proposed new department turned out to be one of the least radical suggestions the committee made. In its wide-ranging attack on problems of black student life at Harvard, the report amazed many observers who had expected only minimal concessions to strong black demands...
...make his position clear here. He should either present a convincing case for excluding students from the selection proceedings, or else he should openly say how much power they will have. Soc Sci 5's traumas this Fall have shown the importance of having students help select professors for Afro-American courses...