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...terms of student turnout, the boycott worked. Estis says he feels the boycott was worthwhile "if for no other reason than that it got people informed about the Afro-Am issue." He says it is hard to say which of the issues people turned out to support, but hopes "we got everyone thinking about both...
...boycott won neither of the students' demands for the department. Since the boycott, there have been no new methods conceived for funding the department, and no new faculty proposed for tenure appointments...
Perhaps because of the imminence of reading period, students did not continue to organize after the protest. Af-Am dropped out of the headlines, and the petitions distributed before the boycott, with their several hundred signatures, never reached Rosovsky's office. "We're thinking about doing something with them in the fall. We're not sure," Estis says...
Estis says he feels the boycott "brought the Afro-Am Department to students' doorsteps," and has already resulted in an increase in the number of concentrators. "We've got nine new freshman concentrators for next fall, and 21 or 22 new concentrators including joint ones," he adds...
...time of the boycott, one visiting committee member said, "Boycotts are fun, I suppose. But if each of those kids took one Afro-Am course while at Harvard, the University would have to tenure more professors whether they liked it or not; that's the only way they could handle the demand. And if you support something, that's not so much to ask, you know...