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...DuBois Institute Student Coalition (DISC) called in a sit-in at Massachusetts Hall. The sit-in was a culmination of many attempts to enter President Bok, Andrew Brimmer, and the DuBois Institute Advisory Board into a dialogue on the DuBois Institute. This letter explains the reason for that...
Second, the concept of the Institute as a research and graduate institution does not merely represent the personal preference of Professor Brimmer or myself. The proposal for a "national research center" was made by the McCree Committee to Review the Department of Afro-American Studies in October 1972. In its report, the Committee envisaged an institute which "could become a center for thought and scholarship and help to fill a void in quality research and publications on Afro-American Studies. This concept was endorsed by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on January 16, 1973 in recommending "the establishment...
...Mass Hall held last Friday by 16 students from the DuBois Institute Student Coalition serves to demonstrate the intransigence of President Bok and Andrew F. Brimmer, chairman of the DuBois Advisory Board. For almost three months, ever since it first presented its proposals in February to Brimmer, the Advisory board and Bok. DISC has never been able to sit down and discuss its demands. DISC's restraint was remarkable, and the sit-in as justified both because of the administration's unwillingness to discuss the issues, and because DISC's demands should be implemented...
These demands in no way compromise what Brimmer says is the DuBots Institute's function to "fill a void in quality research." From the very beginning. DISC has stated that "the primary interest of those in the institute must be research." Brimmer has distorted DISC's demands for forums, colloquia and non-credit seminars as threats to pure research in an apparent attempt to discredit its goal--student participation in the formation and operation of the DuBois Institute. In dismissing the DISC demands. Brimmer said. "There are hundreds and thousands of action groups." But open discussion and criticism of research...
...student coalition has accused Brimmer of ignoring the 1969 faculty proposal--recommending the establishment of the Institute--which DISC says called for student and community involvement in institute planning and a close relationship between the Institute and the Afro-American Studies Department