Word: beckham
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...Barry Beckham, the tenured Black professor who editor the Brown guide, said in an interview earlier this month that the fears of subjectivity expressed by Fox were echoed by officials at other universities. "They were really afraid of the subjective aspects of the profiles," Beckham said. "They had no sense of how objective the editor would be." But Beckham added that most universities "felt they had to take a chance. In the final analysis, they realized that a book like this was long-overdue. They balanced off the risk with the need...
...July 27 letter to Fox, Beckham took issue with the College's concerns, writing. "Without meaning to sound cynical, I must say that it is often exasperating to discover that whenever Black people decided to do something for themselves, those efforts are termed segregationist and separatist.. To be quite honest, Black students' primary considerations have to do with their chances for psychological as well as academic survival, and those chances are usually linked directly to the college's commitment to the special needs Black students bring to the campus...
Epps, in his April letter to Beckham and in subsequent interviews with the Crimson, focused solely on what he called the "too subjective" questions in explaining Harvard's position. Epps feared that Harvard's unique race relations policy might be put "in a very bad light" under the established format. Nevertheless, the dean left the door open for possible future contribution to the guide, pending a change in the information-gathering approach to one allowing for broader explanation...
JAZZ "Southern Comfort"; Gilbert G. King, trumpet, Monte Croft and Michal Beckham, vocals; Berklee Performance Center, Thursday...
Lucid and Michele Beckham--Ryles Downstairs...