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...department's growing pains persisted last year, as a student campaign mounted protesting what some viewed as deliberate administration attempts to weaken the department. Students held a number of demonstrations and rallies for the "strengthening of the Afro-American Studies Department," culminating in a day-long boycott of classes held last May. Student protestors claimed that Harvard has dawdled in its faculty recruitment, deprived the department of adequate funding and is planning to demote it to an interdisciplinary committee without power to tenure or to determine its own curriculum...
...what one member terms the "strengthening" of the Afro-American Studies Department--the appointment of more tenured faculty to the department. But it remains to be seen whether the student body will sympathize with the SASC's espousal of University issues unrelated to South Africa. During last spring's boycott, students expressed doubts over the link between divestiture and the future of the Afro-American Studies Department...
...first, ETS hinted it would boycott New York, forcing students to travel to Connecticutt or New Jersey for the exams. But after considering the economic effects of such a move, ETS decided to stay in the state, with the proviso that prices may increase and service...
Originally, some had feared ETS would stop giving tests all together in New York. Now, though reductions in the number of tests given annually is likely, Churchill says, "I have heard no talk of a boycott." The only holdouts are the boards that administer the Medical College Admission Tests (MCATs) and Dental Aptitude Tests (DATs), both of which announced the day after the bill was passed that they were out of business in New York...
...heard nothing since from them," McLean says, adding that a court challenge to any boycott of New York might be instituted. "They haven't announced any change in their position, but they have stopped boasting about their move too. From what a lot of people have told me, it would be impossible for them to go through with it," she says, adding her suspicion that the boycott announcements were made in hopes of getting an exemption for the two tests. Cuts in service are likely. "I have heard a lot of talk about it from many of the boards, College...