Word: guinier
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...department now has one and a half tenured professors--Southern and Ewart Guinier '33, who is semi-retired. The lack of senior faculty in Afro-Am drew harsh criticism last spring, as students held a series of demonstrations charging Harvard--and Rosovsky in particular--with failing to search aggressively for tenured faculty, depriving the department of funding and planning to demote it to an interdisciplinary committee...
...boycott cut class attendance about 50-60 per cent. About 450 students marched around the River Houses, and the crowd increased to about 700 when Elizabeth Sibeko, United Nations representative to the Pan-Africanist Congress, Guinier and others spoke on the steps of Pusey Library...
...addition, Rosovsky says "in a new subject beginning to establish itself, the better bridges it has to other parts of the University, the better for that department." Guinier says, however, that joint appointments restrict the amount of time and energy a professor can put into either of his two departments...
...approach to the department's tenure problems, however, Rosovsky proposed to the Faculty Council early in May the formation of an executive committee to review faculty for tenure in Afro-American Studies. Guinier opposes the proposal, and the junior faculty in the department have refused to comment on the idea...
...Guinier opposes the proposal, and the junior faculty in the department have refused to comment on the idea. Estis said last week that students supporting the department "have not yet decided whether it (the executive committee) would be a positive or negative step...