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...Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, said yesterday that the Afro library, which has been closed since last week, will reopen today...
However, Juanita Gibson, secretary to Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro Department, continued to insist yesterday that the library was and would continue to be closed...
...soon as additional faculty are found, the Dean (whoever he may be at the time), will take the Department's chairmanship away from Guinier and appoint a new man. The new chairman and his Department will have to deal with an issue only apparently resolved at the January Faculty meeting--the problem of joint concentration. By a narrow 69-66 margin the Faculty rejected Martin Kilson's motion to require students majoring in Afro-American Studies to take at least five half-courses in an outside discipline. If Kilson and his supporters are influential within the search committee...
Thus the only way to bring the mandated fundamental changes in Afro's administration and structure is to recruit tenured faculty with opinions independent of Guinier's. The Faculty legislation calls for the creation of joint departmental ad hoc committees to search for additional faculty members. The past performance of search committees has shown that it generally takes six months to a year (or in some cases even longer) to find one qualified individual for the Afro-American Studies Department. The search may be an unusually difficult one. The 1969 controversy over Afro-American Studies is still prominent in people...
...once believed that after the Faculty Council resolution passed, Afro faculty members other than Ewart Guinier '33, the Department's chairman, would obtain some influence in running the Department. This has not happened. Though no junior faculty opposed the Faculty Council resolution, they are in no position to challenge the Guinier leadership. Since Guinier has controlled his Department for three years, the Afro junior faculty--many of whom are not from Harvard--have little knowledge of how the normal Harvard bureaucracy operates. They have been unable to use the additional influence the new Faculty legislation gives them. Further, it would...