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Walter J. Leonard, President Bok's special assistant, has been overseeing the administration's plans for the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for nearly a year and a half. During most of that time the proposed Afro-American research center was subject to the same controversies that kept it from getting off...
Leonard's dogged approach to the DuBois controversy seems to be paying off. He is now confidently predicting the institute will begin operations along the lines he proposed within a year. He says he doesn't know if the other antagonists are ready to dispense with their disputes, but he...
Despite Leonard's perseverance and his readiness to minimize the importance of the objections that critics raise about his institute design, the contours of the debate over DuBois remain clear and well defined. Much of the debate centers on what relationship the research institute should maintain with the Afro-American...
Leonard's plan for the DuBois Institute stipulates no formal connection between the Afro Department and the research center. Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of Afro, and a student-faculty coalition insisted last spring that a formal structural connection is necessary for both black studies facilities to thrive. The Afro Department...
Both the Provisionals and the Officials managed to get less political people involved, but the Provisionals do it more often. Presumably exclusively Harvard issues tend to seem a bit academic. CHUL managed to stir up a minor storm last year when it recommended that the University abolish sex quotas in...