Word: ephraim
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...qualified person would not condone Nazism. After all, the concepts of Nazism and academic freedom are mutually exclusive. President Bok would tolerate the presence of a Nazi, because he would not be directly threatened by a Nazi's way of thinking. Thus the concept of academic freedom is racist. Ephraim Isaac is "unqualified" because he is an "Africanist," whereas a Nazi can be qualified. However Ephraim Isaac was only going to teach, not develop policy to impose on Third World people throughout the world...
...Saturday night dinner for 350 featured speeches by Ephraim Isaacs, visiting fellow of Middle Eastern Studies at Princeton and the center of a discrimination suit involving the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard. and Junius Williams, an Institute of Politics fellow. The Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (HRBSA), which sponsored the weekend, also that evening honored Ewart Guinier '33, professor of Afro-American Studies emeritus and former chairman of the department...
...preliminary determination, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found "reasonable cause' to believe that the University discriminated against Ephraim Isaac, former associate professor of Afro-American Studies, on the basis of his race (black) and national origin (Ethiopian) by denying him tenure in 1975. The Crimson recently obtained a copy of the finding, handed down in February...
...halls of ivy boast two new VIP scions this fall. Reza Pahlavi, 18, oldest son of the deposed Shah of Iran, has enrolled at Williams College. Though shadowed by bodyguards, the Iranian crown prince is trying to be just another Williams Ephman (after Founder Ephraim Williams), even to turning out for intramural soccer. At Brown University, meanwhile, John Kennedy, 18, lolled through an outdoor concert in an open-throat shirt that showed off his handsome physique. Entering Brown, Kennedy forsook his family's longtime ties to Harvard. One explanation was that he wanted to get away from tradition...
Although the McCree report urged haste in hiring tenured professors, Afro-Am found itself the center of controversy again in 1975, when department members and students charged the University with racism and discrimination in its decision not to offer tenure to Ephraim Isaacs, then associate professor of Afro-American Studies. Isaacs had been recommended for tenure by the department in 1971; four years later, President Bok accepted an ad hoc committee's decision not to offer Isaacs tenure...