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...Ewart Guinier became chairman of the department. The distinguished-looking Guinier has a rich background in both academic and community-action experience. Forced to leave Harvard by the Depression, he finished his undergraduate work at CCNY, then gained a law degree from NYU. Long active in welfare organizations and community agencies in New York City, Guinier was the assistant director of Columbia University's Urban Center before coming to Harvard...
...absurdity and pathos of old-line Faculty members caught in the crunch of new Faculty politics is no better illustrated than in a confrontation this winter between Adam Yarmolinsky, professor of Law, and Ewart Guinier, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department before the Nieman Fellows...
Despite the fact that only one course of the Department of Afro-American Studies is listed in the course catalogue, enrollment in all AAS courses has increased since this Fall, according to Ewart Guinier, chairman of the Department...
Eliot House breakfast is Walter Jackson Bate and Ewart Guinier eating alone at opposite ends of the dining hall, and Alan Heimert squirting oatmeal on his tie. Heimert has already read the morning CRIMSON ("always save the ones with my pictures in them"), and is explaining James Q. Wilson to a clutch of cautiously admiring clubbies. The clubbies like to keep abreast of developments as long as it doesn't involve reading. They keep the Master primed (if priming be needed) with frequently inserted "aouh yes's" and "I know's" of about twelve syllables each. The clubbies like...
Liberationist Mentality. The department is directed by Dr. Ewart Guinier, 59, who has degrees from City College of New York, Columbia University and New York University, and came to Harvard after planning ghetto programs at Columbia's Urban Center. Though Guinier agrees that community action must be part of Harvard's approach to Afro-American studies, initial progress in that direction has obviously not satisfied militant black students; last fall they took matters into their own hands by thrice occupying University Hall to protest the institution's allegedly racist employment policies...