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First, the reason for not naming Ewart Guinier, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, to the W.E.B. DuBois advisory board, as was stated in The Crimson, is that he is "not in sympathy with the institute." Apparently not being in sympathy with the present conception of the institute is sufficient grounds to bar one from participation. The president has said as much. Never let it be said that the administration is doctrinaire in its outlook. When the faculty of the Afro-American Studies Department repeatedly insists that appointments in the department should be in sympathy with the work...
...Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro Department, is giving Bok something else to worry about. On Tuesday Guinier released a letter he sent to Bok in which he charges the administration with "glaring violations" of an earlier promise to give Afro some say in DuBois's development. Guiner's letter also said Bok's failure to consult him on the advisory board selection was "highly irregular on both administrative and ethical grounds...
...search committee's second prospective appointment fell through, Dean Rosovsky dissolved the committee this week. In its place, he set up a dual mechanism to find Afro faculty--writing letters to ten department chairmen asking them to look for possible joint appointees in their fields and Afro, and asking Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro Department, to suggest scholars who might fill posts in Afro alone...
Rosovsky will also ask Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro Department, to look for new tenured faculty members who will hold positions in Afro alone, John B. Fox Jr. '59, Rosovsky's special assistant, said yesterday...
BESIDES BEING an uncalled-for personal slight, President Bok's decision not to name Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, to the advisory board of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research is representative of an unreasonable and small-minded attitude toward dissent in the University. Because he balked at policies formulated by the administration, Guinier has been removed from a decision-making process that he should be an integral part of because of his role as Afro's only tenured professor...