Word: discs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DISC's five-hour sit-in in Massachusetts Hall's reception room a week ago is the result of years of dispute over the DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research--a dispute that may, with the sit-in, have reached its high-water mark...
Still, he and members of DISC have been upset that the supposed link between the institute and the Afro Department might become dissolved. DISC members felt as well that the institute as planned wrongly excluded undergraduates from its operation...
...winter and into the spring DISC was protesting, the advisory board was meeting and Bok, who is said to have put the institute near the top of his list of fund-raising priorities, was getting contributions...
...DISC members admit they never officially asked for a meeting with Bok, but they say Bok should have approached them after receiving their proposals...
...conclusion, I must disagree very strongly with your statement that "the university's disregard of the DISC proposal again demonstrates a lack of real commitment to strengthening Afro-American Studies at Harvard." A succession of reviews by faculty members and others have supported the formation of a research and graduate institute to develop the body of knowledge and increase the number of teacher-scholars in the field of Afro-American Studies. Those who have supported this concept believe that such an institute will strengthen Afro-American Studies just as similar institutes have proved useful in many other fields of study...