Word: guinier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kilson has made Guinier's appointment to the search committee a point of controversy. Kilson insists that the appointment is "extraordinary and unfortunate" in that it disregards the intent of the Faculty legislation creating the committee...
...Guinier's place on the committee not withstanding, it is Rosovsky and not Guinier who holds the key to the Afro Department's fate. If Rosovsky's posture in 1969 is any indication, the Department's structure will begin to look more and more like that of older academic departments at Harvard...
...Guinier, much uncertainty remains about his position at Harvard. He is clearly not the most popular man with the Faculty, and he will probably not be able to retain the chairmanship of Afro Department very much longer. Whether Guinier will want to remain at Harvard after a new chairman is named remains a subject for speculation...
...speculation already has begun. Kiely said that the search committee was looking for a new Afro chairman because Guinier "planned to retire in the next year or two." When told that Guinier's office denied that the Afro chairman had any plans to retire in the near future, Kiely explained that he assumed Guinier55HENRY ROSOVSKY may make some changes in Afro this year...
...major point of contention in the DuBois debate was whether the Afro Department would have sole control over the companion Institute. Afro chairman Ewart Guinier '33 believed that the Rosovsky Report and April 1969 Faculty legislation gave the responsibility for DuBois to Afro alone. When, late in 1969, President Nathan M. Pusey '28 appointed an interdepartmental committee with Guinier at its head to direct the institute's development, Guinier refused to convene it on the grounds that it was formed contrary to Faculty legislation...