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Patterson agrees with Ferguson's assessment of the committee's goals, and adds that it will also be examining the department's curriculum, its teaching and its faculty quality in an effort to "bring the department in line with other Harvard departments." He notes that perhaps the most important task of the committee is to convince the Harvard community, especially its students, of the intellectual legitimacy of Afro-American Studies. "Students are acutely conscious of the fact that the study now has relatively little status, and have a right to be concerned," he notes...
Neither Ferguson nor other committee members believe these problems of tenure and possible confrontation to be insurmountable. Committee members say that they believe in the legitimacy and intellectual excitement of Afro-American Studies, and want to make sure other Harvard community members think so, too. Although efforts to help Afro-Am have a long history of failure, they remain confident. "This really is a last ditch effort--if this doesn't work, nothing will," Patterson says. Rosovsky and the rest of the committee are laying cautious odds that it will, but this year should prove a crucial test of that...
...Washington's offices to Cambridge's laboratories and libraries, Robert H. Scott, director of financial systems, reports. At the Medical Schol, officials say, 70 per cent of all research funds come from various federal agencies. "The National Institute of Health (NIH) is the lifeblood of the Medical School research effort," Elizabeth A. Picard, associate dean of the Medical faculty for financial affairs, says flatly. Federal funding has become the linchpin of academic research...
...battle began. Then in May 1976, an NIH audit concluded that the school's department of Nutrition had overcharged the federal government by $132,000 and the agency told Harvard to give it back. The University concurred with the findings and returned the money in September 1976--in an effort to put an end to the entire episode...
...permit system, which governs renovation, and not the buying and selling of units, is an effort to avoid the legal obstacles that have hampered past attempts to prevent the spread of condominiums. Court challenges have already started for the new ordinance, though, and some condo developers predict the new rent control regulations will be outlawed before they're ever approved...