Word: guinier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue was who would control the development process. Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro Department, wanted his department to take the leading role in the Institute during its formative years. Guinier felt that Afro's development depended to a large extent on the resources of the Institute, and he believed that legislation passed by the Faculty in 1969 backed him up on this point. Pusey evidently had other ideas. The president expected that the university itself would keep control over the Institute, and apparently the administration did not want to back down. Dean of the Faculty John T. Dunlop...
...case, the conflict between Guinier and the central administration took its toll. Guinier, who had been appointed by Pusey to chair the committee overseeing DuBois's development, refused to convene the Faculty committee until the administration changed its stand. Neither the administration nor Guinier would budge, and for nearly two years no action was taken on the Institute's behalf...
...months later President Bok used this opening to appoint a new committee to take over the planning of the Institute. Bok named Walter Leonard as the committee's chairman, and asked Guinier to serve as one of its seven members. Despite speculation that he would refuse the appointment, Guinier attended all of the committee's meetings...
...issue of the Harvard University Gazette printed the full text of the Leonard Committee's report on the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research. Next to the name of Prof. Ewart Guinier, chairperson of the Afro-American Studies Department, was a footnote, with the notation below, "Withdrew name after the report was submitted, but has not filed a minority opinion." This is a blatant distortion of the facts...
...Leonard report was never submitted to the full committee for a vote. Within a week after Walter J. Leonard had given the report to President Bok, Prof. Guinier sent Bok a memorandum that was highly critical of it. He asked Bok not to accept the report but to return it to the committee for reappraisal. Prof. Guinier did not "withdraw his name"--he had never officially approved the report in the first place...