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Sources in the Afro Department said last night that Lewis may have some future ties to the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, but Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to Bok and the administrator's coordinator for the DuBois Institute, said last night that the appointment is "clearly" not...
"I'd suspect it would be a research appointment within the University not related to any faculty," Leonard said. "I know the DuBois board hasn't made the appointment. There's been no offer by the DuBois board to anyone for anything."
Lewis said yesterday, "I'm not prepared to make any comment about a DuBois research professorship," and he refused to elaborate about either the appointment or the subject matter of his books.
Despite Bok's professed support for the concept of Afro-American Studies programs, not much needs to be said about the way Harvard has treated its own Afro department. Bok can talk all he wants to the NAACP about efforts aimed at "strengthening the faculty of Afro-American Studies," but...
Black students who cast off this oppressor's mentality and demand that colleges provide facilities and services for the benefit of black communities will meet calculated resistance, ranging from evasive double talk to tear gas and M-16's depending upon the degree to which the student body is expendable...