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...indication that Guinier will not long continue in his capacity as chairman came when the Committee to Review The Department of Afro-American Studies, chaired by Wade McCree, a judge in Detroit, Mich., issued its report to the Faculty in October 1972. Recommendation IIIa of the report was: "The chairmanship of the Department should be on a rotating basis every three or four years in accordance with Harvard practice." The upcoming academic year will be Guinier's fourth as Afro's chairman...
Guinier denounced recommendation IIIa, saying that at Harvard there is no explicit requirement to rotate a Departmental chairmanship and he called the authors of the report "ignorant" of University practice. Guinier said earlier this month that no attempt to remove him is currently in progress...
Recommendation IIIb of the Review Committee's report said that at least two more tenured positions, to be filled by a search committee, should be created. It also recommended that one of the new appointees "take over the chairmanship as early as practicable on the customary rotating basis...
...review committee also took the first steps toward curbing the powers of the chairman of the Department, Ewart Guinier '33. It recommended that the chairmanship be rotated every three or four years among the Department's tenured members. In addition, it called for an extensive search for new Faculty members by search committees appointed by the dean of the Faculty...
...short weeks ago, Cook seemed likely to make his mark as the youngest SEC chief ever (he is 36), and one who would carry out the far-reaching stock-market reforms begun by his predecessor, William J. Casey; instead, he will have only the unhappy distinction of the shortest chairmanship in the SEC's 39-year history. His departure leaves a shaken agency that will have difficulty carrying out its role of guiding and policing the nation's financial markets...