Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standing Faculty Committee was to be officially authorized to select a chairman for the Afro-American Studies program. According to an explicit agreement between the Rosovsky Committee, the representatives of Afro, and the standing Faculty Committee-an agreement made before February 11--a Search Committee was to be formed with the power to select a chairman of the Afro American Studies program...
...Search Committee, comprised of three Faculty members and three representatives from Afro, was agreed upon because the standing Faculty Committee did not consider themselves sufficiently competent in the field of Afro-American Studies to decide on the selection of a chairman of that field. Another reason for the creation of the Search Committee was to give students a direct input to the decision-making processes of the program from the very beginning...
According to Franklin D. Raines '71, chairman of SFAC and one of the student consultants, many of the students were distrustful of the board. They feared that they would be called in just to give an impression of legitimacy to some future bust. In addition, there was a consensus among the students that they would not participate in an emergency meeting unless representatives of Afro and SDS, not invited to yesterday's meeting, were also consulted...
Lance C. Buhl, senior resident at Holmes Hall and chairman of the mass meeting, ruled the motion out of order, but shouts of "No, No" brought a vote to overrule the chair and substantially more that the required two-thirds majority agreed to consider the motion...
There was no steering committee of the group, and Kenneth M. Glazier '69, former chairman of SFAC, was the only student to make any public statements...