Word: afros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Educational crossfire also hit two interdisciplinary majors: Afro-American Studies and Women's Studies. A coalition of concerned student groups this year led protests against what they say as systematic attempts to weaken the Afro-American Studies Department. Ever since Af-Am's stormy birth ten years ago, detractors have attacked its academic validity. They believe Af-Am has no methodology and could better be studied through an interdisciplinary committee. But supporters say the demotion to a committee would cripple Af-Am by removing its right to tenure professors and choose its own curriculum. This fall an Overseers' Visiting Committee...
...concentrator, who wished to remain unidentified, added that these faculty members doubt Southern's commitment to Afro-Am. Southern has tenure in both the Music and Afro-Am. Departments...
Eileen Southern, professor of Music and Afro-American Studies, will no longer chair the department of Afro-American Studies...
While Southern was away this spring, controversy broke out about the status of the Afro-American Studies Department. Students held demonstrations throughout the semester protesting the possible demotion of the department to an interdisciplinary committee, which then would not be able to tenure professors...
...bent on limiting students' rights to free expression have hardly changed. The main issues that prompted the University Hall takeover and the strike that followed it were threefold: an end to the preferred status on campus of the armed forces Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), establishment of a viable Afro-American Studies Department, and an end to Harvard's unconscionable expansion into the surrounding community. Granted, ROTC is no longer an issue--at least for the moment--but the Faculty's shabby treatment of the Afro Department, and Harvard's blatant disregard of the rights and needs of its tenants...