Word: deane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dean Rosovsky continues to educate the African American community of its deteriorating status at Harvard. Quotes from two recently published newspapers illustrate his contempt for the formation of an African American Studies Department controlled by African Americans...
...Today we are a multitude," he said. By implication the dean expresses contemptuous "sympathy and tolerance" toward African Americans. For us, a quota system is a mechanism to secure our numbers in institutions which have historically excluded us in America...
...Harvard Independent entitled "Afro-Am Gets Pro-Tem Faculty, Chairman" tells us how. The article reveals that the department has: one and a half regular faculty members, two African Americans, no students on the newly formed five-member executive committee, and no African American chairman. Compare this to the dean's suggestion that Jewish faculty and students cooperate to form a Jewish Studies curriculum...
Concerning the issue of "building a faculty" for the hyphenated "Afro-Am" Department, Dean Rosovsky said last week, "The issue is not money, administration, or structure--it is an intellectual issue of teaching and research. We've tried for a decade to bring on a faculty. We have tried and we have failed..." This is another contemptuous statement directed toward African Americans--it implies that one decade is not sufficient time to collect an African American faculty capable of providing its intellectual direction...
...African American community at Harvard look to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as represented by its dean, to develop an intellectually conscientious and academically respected African American Studies Department...