Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with regard to Afro-American studies. One of the tasks (a "detailed charge") he assigned the committee was the investigation of "a possible field of undergraduate concentration, held together by the centrality of concern for African and Afro-American subject matter." A self-styled "expert" in the field, Rosovsky chose to both admit this "detailed charge", and then sabotage it by dividing the committee into two subcommittees, one to explore African studies and the other to explore Afro-American studies. This was Rosovsky's first failure to act as a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and represented...
While the department had managed to carry out fairly well the task of bringing Afro-American studies to the Harvard community, in 1972 the University and the department were at odds. The University chose to ignore the tasks it had assigned itself in 1969, and abandoned all commitment to the young department. The DuBois Institute was no closer to establishment than when it was first conceived. The standing committee had made no recommendations for tenure positions in the department. There was no graduate program in Afro-American studies. When the three-year Review Committee met in the year...
...Ford's well-intentioned championing of statehood for Puerto Rico, it left some Puerto Ricans muttering that the White House was trying to force them into a "shotgun wedding." Newly installed Governor Romero, a longtime statehood advocate, offered his opinion in his inaugural address: he pointedly chose not even to mention the Ford proposal...
...host of aspirants. But there is no one way to win them, as the diametrically opposed situations in two giant unions illustrate. The 1.4 million-member United Steelworkers is enmeshed in a mudslinging, red-baiting election campaign, while the United Auto Workers, also 1.4 million strong, last week effectively chose a new chief in an atmosphere of total harmony. Details...
With several of his regulars questionable because of minor injuries, Lee chose to keep them on the bench and let them mend for the upcoming Ivy League schedule, trotting out his reserves instead. The result was a match that went down to the final bout before Smith put it away...