Word: guinier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guinier, who will be retiring as chairman in January, said he is "proud" of Southern's plans and added that "mountains can be moved by careful study and a clear vision of what you wish...
...Ewart Guinier '33 symbolically handed over the chairmanship of the Afro-American Studies Department to his successor, Eileen Southern, in a farewell dinner at Mather House last night...
Southern, lecturer in Afro-American Studies, lauded Guinier at the dinner for his dedication in improving the conditions of black students at Harvard and said that as chairman she will press for graduate programs in Afro-American Studies...
Racism: It seems sometimes that people avoid that term with a passion. I think one of the reasons Professor Ewart Guinier turns some people off is that he raises his voice when he says "racism." Everyone, white and black, knows he's crazy, because racism is only in South Boston. It is a minor problem, just an idiosyncrasy that some white people picked up somewhere. Nothing serious, of course. Apartheid? That could never happen here in the States. It seems to me that there are blacks as dark as the South Africans, and whites as whites as the Afrikaaners here...
...reason that Afro was not allowed to make the nominations for permanent posts in the department, as is normally the case, Rosovsky said, is because "tenure decision have to be made by tenured people" and Afro had only one tenured person, Eward Guinier '33, chairman of Afro...