Word: bsa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Black Student Association (BSA) President Curtis Hairston '84 said yesterday that such alumni groups--which he believes will be crucial to Black undergraduates as a source of guidance and funding--will begin to take on added importance next year...
...Black Students Association (BSA) is sponsoring a rally today at 1 p.m. at Memorial Church to express student solidarity with the Afro-American Studies Department, and to urge that the University increase its support for the concentration...
They also plan to draw attention to the on going case of Ephraim Isaacs, who has filed racial discrimination charges against Harvard for its refusal to grant him tenure in 1975. BSA President Gaye Williams '83 said this week...
...BSA members planning the rally said its chief goal is to correct misconceptions people have about Afro-Am. "I think the consciousness has to be raised," Karen Walker '84, a joint concentrator in the department said yesterday, adding she does not think that the student body as a whole fully appreciates the value of Afro-Am. "I would like to see people think of it as a place of scholarship," she said...
...there are not enough concentrators, the BSA organizers said they fear a "domino theory" could threaten the whole department. The administration may reason, "if there aren't many student concentrators in Afro-Am, they don't need many professors, and therefore there isn't much need for Afro-Am," Williams said...