Word: guinier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro Department, is giving Bok something else to worry about. On Tuesday Guinier released a letter he sent to Bok in which he charges the administration with "glaring violations" of an earlier promise to give Afro some say in DuBois's development. Guiner's letter also said Bok's failure to consult him on the advisory board selection was "highly irregular on both administrative and ethical grounds...
...committee's second prospective appointment fell through, Dean Rosovsky dissolved the committee this week. In its place, he set up a dual mechanism to find Afro faculty--writing letters to ten department chairmen asking them to look for possible joint appointees in their fields and Afro, and asking Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro Department, to suggest scholars who might fill posts in Afro alone...
...issue of joint appointments is the crucial one. Guinier strongly opposes them, saying that joint appointees will probably not be competent in Afro and that Rosovsky's insistence on joint appointments made the committee's work impossible...
...Guinier, the only tenured member of the Afro Department, was out of town yesterday and unavailable for comment, but he has consistently opposed staffing the Afro Department through joint appointments in Afro and another field...
...Guinier and the departments will replace the search committee as the conduit for new Afro appointments...