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The DuBois Institute Student Coalition began last night a week of guerilla skits and House meetings designed to win student support for its plans for the proposed W.E.B. Dubois Institute for Afro-American Studies.
In his statement on the DuBois Institute late in March, Andrew F. Brimmer, chairman of the DuBois Institute advisory board, said that members of the board had asked President Bok and Dean Rosovsky to place a member of the Afro American Studies Department on the board.
The advisory board should meet with members of the coalition to discuss the students carefully, researched proposals, and work to open a dialogue on all plans for the DuBois Institute, rather than ignore and insult the undergraduates. In the attempt to avoid debate and controversy, the advisory board has unnecessarily...
The marchers chanted slogans and carried signs calling for the implementation of the proposals of the DuBois Institute Student Committee, an increase in the number of third world and working class students, as well as the adoption of one-to-one admissions.
He praised the different factions involved in the demonstration including the DuBois Institute Student Committee and NAM, for uniting "against the University which is a common oppressor."