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...black students from the Afro and the Pan-African Liberation Committee, two activist groups, took over Mass. Hall and demanded that the University divest from the Gulf Oil Corporation in protest of the company's practices in Angola. John, who was one of the protestors inside the building, says the takeover resulted from students' unsuccessful meetings with stockholders to discuss concerns...
...says C'est Bon's inclusion on the list stemmed in part from recommendations by faculty in the Afro-American Studies Department, which was located on Mass. Ave. next to C'est Bon at the time, and is now housed in the Barker Center...
...long-time supporter of Hanssen, Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies Werner Sollors said that, if anything, Hanssen's case would have been helped by the heigtened sensitivity surrounding the lack of tenured women in the humanities...
Counter is a neuroscience professor. Seven ofthe 18 FAC members are science professors. Six areadministrators. No one from the Afro-AmericanStudies Department's "dream team" of race scholarssits on the committee...
...requirements, but has also rightly added a quantitative component to the Core and toughened the language requirement. After a couple of sparse years, the Core has rebounded to offer a sizable number of new classes. Several departments have seen the arrival of renowned scholars, from William Julius Wilson in Afro-American Studies to Stephen Greenblatt in English. On the other hand, the last four years have also seen the depletion of the Government and History departments, particularly Americanists; the mass exodus of junior faculty from the English department; the seeming failure, if not iniquity, of the tenure system...