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Four months after President Bok's Advisory Committee on the W.E.B. DuBois Institute submitted its report, the long-expected controversy over the committee's proposals finally surfaced this week with two separate blasts at the report's contents.
Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, charged that the committee failed to live up to obligations imposed upon it by a Faculty-approved prospectus for the research institute by not stipulating any formal connection between the DuBois Institute and the Afro Department.
What may prove to be more significant opposition came from a group of Afro Department concentrators, who met Monday to organize a petition drive aimed at delaying implementation of the DuBois report's proposals. The dissident undergraduates, who will meet again next Monday, have developed a 12-point program for...
Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to Bok and chairman of the advisory committee, spent a good part of his week trying to stem the tide of opposition to his committee's work. He responded to Guinier's charge by saying that the 1969 prospectus on which the Afro chairman is...
The DuBois report called upon Bok to initiate a $5-to$6-million capital fund drive for the institute. Leonard said it's already underway.