Word: baldwin
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...Administration has rightly disallowed the AAAAS's proposed sliding admission scale for James Baldwin's speech on the grounds that the plan was discriminatory. As recent campaigns against de facto segregation have maintained, the areas that would have received preferential treatment are predominately Negro. The motivation of O. Martin Anochie, president of the AAAAS, can hardly have been to help "persons who can't afford high admission prices" as he claims, since other sections of Boston qualify with Dorchester and Roxbury as depressed areas. What Anochie should have said, but did not, was that he wished to help Negroes...
...seeking to help poorer Negroes hear Baldwin, the AAAAS could have chosen a plan that would not have embroiled the Administration in a misleading dispute over discrimination. To oppose the sliding a admission scale is not to oppose the general idea of aiding people from Roxbury, Dorchester, or any other depressed area to attend the Jan. 18 speech. A flat fifty-cent rate or differently priced seats would have served that purpose just as well...
...Association of African and Afro-American Students will not be allowed to use Sanders Theatre for James Baldwin's scheduled Jan. 18 speech unless they drop plans for an allegedly discriminatory sliding admission scale, Dean Watson said yesterday. O. Martin Anochie, president of the AAAAS indicated last night that his group would comply with the University's desires, but labeled Harvard's action as "ridiculous...
...Baldwin's speech will be sponsored by the Association of African and Afro-American Students at Harvard and Radcliffe, which received official University recognition...
...Baldwin speech will be the first event sponsored by the Association since official recognition gave it the right to use University buildings. Previously, the group used House facilities, which are at the disposal of the individual Masters...