Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down a laundry list of pro-condo arguments. "It gives people interest in the city as taxpayers, it increases the amount of revenue to the city, it improves the property, and last but not at all least, it lets everyone experience the pride of ownership which is a basic American right," Walsh says. "Condos open new gates for people coming in, and since so many old tenants buy them, the price has to be damn right...
...move to bolster the controversial Afro-American Studies Department, Dean Rosovsky has created an executive committee of five prominent senior faculty to govern the department...
Chidi Ikonne, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, will serve as acting chairman of Afro-Am. Ikonne replaces Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies and Music, who resigned in June partly because she said she did not understand how she could work with the executive committee. Ikonne will work under the supervision of the committee, Rosovsky said...
...committee members are C. Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law (chairman); David H. Donald, Warren Professor of American History; Richard Freeman, professor of Economics; Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology; and Southern...
Patterson said last week he hopes the committee will be able to "bring the department in line with other Harvard departments. If a student leaves this University with a degree in Afro-American Studies, it should carry the same weight as any other degree at Harvard--and I suspect it doesn...