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...Fainbank, foremost U. S. expert on East Asian Studies, founded Harvard's East Asian Research Center in 1959, which now includes one of the most comprehensive China study programs in the world...
...Foremost among its recommendations- which included the creation of a black students' cultural center, more courses in African Studies, and an increased enrollment of blacks in the University's graduate schools- was that of the "development of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Afro-American Studies." (The wording of this specific recommendation is important to note. By a prior agreement between the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students and the Faculty Committee, the document was purposely ambiguous about what form- whether departmental or interdisciplinary- Afro-American Studies at Harvard was to assume in order to make its passage before...
...climate of academic freedom has been Harvard's foremost feature, Maass said last week. When he started teaching here in 1949, Harvard was the freest University in the country for doing scholarly work and teaching...
...decision to override the sense of the May 10 mass meeting, a purposefully dramatic move that was met with reactions that varied from "it's about time" to pure outrage (someone called us a miniature Committee of Public Safety), rested on a number of assumptions. First and foremost, we conceived of ourselves as the steering committee of the striking community, not of all Harvard. That determined our rule that only strikers could vote at the meetings we called to ask for ongoing mandates for action. Our inability to enforce that rule-all of the hard-core strike opponents...
...with rock, drugs and the black revolution in Sympathy for the Devil; the result is pretty much a stalemate. The film is fragmented, delirious and didactic, sometimes to the point of stupor. But it displays the incontestable energy and stylistic daring that have made Godard the cinema's foremost pop essayist...