Word: afros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Coalition for Awareness and Action included strengthening the Afro-American Studies Department as a demand of last Monday's student boycott of classes, many students were skeptical about offering support. "Divestiture, now there's an issue to unite an entire student body," a Kirkland House sophomore said last week. "But Afro-Am? For most of us, it's just not our fight...
Many students, beseiged by literature in recent weeks that has marked the tenth anniversary of the Harvard strike, have in fact been surprised to learn that the creation of an autonomous Afro-American Studies Department has been one major demand of striking Harvard students in 1969. More surprising than the subsequent granting of the demand is that, after ten years, the department has come full circle: a visiting committee is at present judging its viability as a department, and presenting recommendations on the status of the department to the Board of Overseers...
...Africanism: Africa and the Black Diaspora--Ewart Guinier, professor of Afro-American Studies; Olara Otunnu, general secretary, Uganda Freedom Union; and Robert van Lierop, editor, Review of African Political Economy; Rm. 101, Pound Bldg...
...called "conservatives" disapprove of the existence of an Afro-American Studies Department, but most decry the way it came into being. Recalling the April 22 Loeb Theater Faculty meeting at which the department was authorized under a plan allowing for student participation in major department decisions, Pipes describes "the sickening spectacle of the Faculty rationalizing its fear...
...issue is not whether debate should (or could) be ended, but whether we as individuals should take steps to hasten divestiture and provide for a strong Afro-American Studies Department. This does not mean that we should uncritically accept whatever information the Coalition may feed us and blindly follow in their path. But the concrete demands which the Coalition is making are simple and well-publicized: divestiture and commitment to Afro-American Studies. One needn't follow any party line in order to protest on behalf of these issues. Protest can never put an end to debate, but debate often...