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Explosive 190-pound grappler Richie Starr and 118-pound workhose Dan Blakinger were named by the seven Ivy League wrestling coaches to the 1973 All-Ivy team yesterday...
...Dan Swanson's "Benign Apartheid at Harvard" is a bit much. It is one of the more disturbing examples of the paternalistic pat-on-the-head that white leftists are wont to give black separatists for their so-called Black Power posture toward white racism and white power structures. In regard to Dean John Dunlop, Swanson is simply wrong. There was nothing racist about Dunlop's efforts to restore academic standards to Afro-American Studies. He was doing little more than following proposals that I and Professor Orlando Patterson had formulated over a year...
...effort to rationalize black separatism, Dan Swanson misses the point. Harvard's past racism and current vestiges thereof, bad as these are, are not fundamental to black separatism among Harvard Negro students. Black separatism is essentially the product of a desire by Negro students to define an arena of activity within Harvard wherein they can realize a sense of relevance and value outside the competitive academic and intellectual life-styles of Harvard College. This arena provides two things to blacks at white Harvard: one, a source of identity separate from academic processes; two, a base for political leverage over some...
...doubt Dan Swanson and other white leftists might convince Harvard blacks that, in Swanson's words, "competitive whites...must appear bizarre to most blacks." But if Harvard Negro students do accept this they should at least know the cost of enjoying this outlook in the present structure of American society. The cost is high: no less than low income, privation, and powerlessness. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...decided. "We've been lucky in the last four years to have really good catching, but this season the job is still open," Park said. Ricky Berdich appears to be the leading candidate at this time, but several others are fighting for the spot. Bill McHugh, Dan Williams and Bill Hardin are working to get the position...