Word: feels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More pointedly, there is the problem faced by the black students, who, coming to Harvard, may feel more or less consciously something of a dislocation from the black community. Many students who addressed the committee expressed the need to legitimize, inwardly as well as publicly, their presence at Harvard while other blacks remain in the ghetto, confronting its problems, bearing its burdens. Herein lies one of the major sources of the demand for courses "relevant" to the black experience...
Other steps should be taken to provide greater flexibility in the programs of students once they have entered on a field of concentration. Black students feel that their proposals for tutorial work, or for independent study, are too often discouraged by the present Departments and degree-awarding Committees. Social Relations was singled out by students as being generally quite receptive to such proposals, but even this field, broad and tolerant as it is, has on occasion proven unable to encompass and serve what black students consider their legitimate intellectual needs...
...students feel that there are areas in which they have experience and information that could not possibly be available to any white member of the Faculty. Lack of Faculty "expertise" ought not be a reason for discouraging students' work in such areas; rather, instructors should provide, at a minimum, appropriate professional guidance--bibliographical and methodological assistance--for those students who wish to pursue investigations in areas where no "expert" is presently available. Where black students have such special expertise, the Faculty should be encouraged to avail themselves of these resources...
...black student's desire for some continuing identification with the black community poses a particular challenge to the present structure of undergraduate life. The House system in particular works splendidly in terms of the traditional Harvard goal of "integrating" students from a variety of backgrounds. But the black students feel that the system, by its very nature, works a perhaps too thorough fragmentation of the black student community, most obviously at Radcliffe, where dispersal of black students has, at least in the past, led to the assignment of but a single black student in one residence hall...
...intended--any more than the comparable facilities and activities available to other student groups--to separate black students or their interests entirely from the life of the College Quite the contrary, the students urge such a center as among the steps to be taken "to make the black student feel more involved and less isolated in this community...