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...boost to all those involved in the field of black scholarship at Harvard--except undergraduates. Undergraduates, who suffer as much as graduate students and professors from the void the institute may fill, should be one of its natural constituencies--doing research there, for instance, or participating in seminars or colloquia. Like the institute's other constituents, they should have a voice on its advisory board...
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...
...students' major proposals is that the DuBois Institute should have ties to the black community, both through seminars and colloquia open to the public and through socially relevant, research projects. In flatly rejecting this concept. Brimmer and the advisory board are accepting an outmoded Harvard ideal of the isolated academic, studying the world from an ivory tower. This ideal is now totally unrealistic--in most departments, academics shuttle between the University and the "real world...
...colloquia would concentrate on themes or phenomena common in a variety of historical periods--such as "revolution" or "industrialization"--rather than on a specific era, Thomas J. Kimmell '74-3, a member of the committee, said yesterday...
...proposal also recommends implementation of a pilot project if the department decides it cannot yet commit itself fully to the plan. The pilot program would permit a limited number of representative seniors to participate in the colloquia, exempting them from the general examination...