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...from discussion only because our competence in the field is limited.) Concluding this chapter is a list of 17 recommendations concerned with the establishment and continuance of Afro-American Studies. These recommendations were accepted by the Faculty on February 11. The action of the standing Faculty Committee--their disregard for the terms of the Rosovsky Report--is a damning illustration of the misuse of the decision-making process in this University...
...evaluates those six demands as a basis for negotiation, it seems clear to me that they were never meant seriously. The community was asked to support them on the basis of the Corporation's alleged disregard for the Faculty vote removing academic credit from ROTC courses as soon as that could be legally effected, and withdrawing academic status in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from the officers of the three ROTC units. The ROTC negotiations now in progress are in fact following precisely the lines laid down by the Faculty vote, on the explicit instructions of the Corporation...
...issues are satisfactorlly resolved. This action is necessary because the present mechanisms of policy-making at Harvard are totally inadequate. The decision-making power of the Corporation is completely unresponsive to student opposition to its decisions. Furthermore, the recent actions of the Corporation and the Administration display a callous disregard for the safety and lives of this student body...
...This disregard was never more evident than Thursday morning. It is an inescapable conclusion, after the experiences in Chicago, at the Pentagon, at Columbia, and at many other of the nation's universities that the administration's decision to bring in the police endangered the lives of all students. Not only were demonstrators inside University Hall brutalized, but innocent by-standers were also attacked. This has a special significance for us Black students. At least three of our brothers were attacked for no other apparent reason than the color of their skin. None were in the immediate vicinity of University...
Thus, as a purveyor of nostalgia, Blair invited comparison with Grandma Moses. He too was unable to conquer perspective or master the technique of shadow. His rivers run up and down hillsides in carefree disregard of Newton, and the passengers in his buckboards are sometimes bigger than the animals that pull them. Like Grandma, he never went to art shows, completely ignored art magazines, and firmly refused to take formal instruction...