Word: guinier
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...Nwafor has not come to any Faculty meetings this year and last year only came to one of fifteen meetings," Guinier said. Nwafor said yesterday Guinier's statement that he knows nothing about how the department operates is "perposterous...
...department has been deluged with requests from outside the University seeking advice on how to set up an Afro-American Studies program, Guinier added. Guinier said that Nwafor "has his own axe to grind." Nwafor's five year term appointment as an assistant professor runs out next June and he has received notification from Guinier that he will not be reappointed. Guinier said that Nwafor or any other junior member of the department should present himself to the committee seeking additional tenured Afro-American Studies faculty members...
...Guinier again refused to comment specifically on Nwafor's charges. He did say that there has been greater cooperation between the Afro-American Studies Department and other departments this year than in the past. He said that his department has developed working relationships with the East Asian Studies and Economics Departments. Nwafor said in his statement that Geneva Smitherman, lecturer on Afro-American Studies, left the department earlier this year "in sheer disgust at the rapidly deteriorating state of affairs...
...Guinier declined to comment on Nwafor's charge, but a source in the department said yesterday that Smitherman left Harvard for personal reasons totally unrelated to conditions within the department or the Universsty...
Nwafor yesterday refused to disclose which search committee appointment he was referring to. However, it is probable that Nwafor was making reference to former Dean Dunlop's appointment of Guinier to that body. Guinier refused to comment on Nwafor's charge but said that the search committee had only had preliminary meetings which he described as "harmonious." In his statement, Nwafor said, "Nevertheless it remains imperative that the search committee should discharge its duties with resolute vigor, and to make its mandated appointments forthwith to arrest further disintegration and an imminent collapse in the department...