Word: afros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicago native, who came from the City University of New York in 1976 to become chairman of the then-troubled Afro-American Studies Department, reflects upon her years here as intellectually exhilarating. But, she says, she has found that Harvard does not have a particularly positive attitude toward minorities, and believes the climate has grown colder since the early 1970s...
...next term, the professor holding joint tenure in music and Afro-American studies will retire. Her departure, on a pragmatic level, will leave the University without a scholar in ethno-musicology; more symbolically, it will strip the small female contingent within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of any senior Black presence...
HARVARD HIRED SOUTHERN at a time when Afro-American Studies--instituted in the wake of militant student demands during the late 1960s--was suffering from plummeting student interest and the University's admitted inability to lure scholars to bolster the field...
...women's studies at the University. Harvard is now beginning to consider a women's studies concentration, after years of arguing its uselessness, but the process is a slow one and sure to be derailed in the long run by administrative neglect--for precedent, consider the story of the Afro-Am Department...
...hockey team will have this effect. His discussion of the admissions, living, and academic perquisites Harvard athletes supposedly enjoy is, by his own admission, undocumented rumor. Gossipy tripe about football players bragging over low SAT scores is meaningless. Also, the connection between athletes, investment policy, women's studies, and Afro-American Studies completely escapes...