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...date no concrete efforts have been made by the Administration toward establishing this institute Fwart Guinier the chairman of the Afro American Studies Department has repeatedly criticized the Administration for failing to provide funds As yet he has gotten no response...
Initially, the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies, which was created to administer the program until the Department's executive committee was formed drew up a prospectus for the institute which it released in September 1969 During that fall and winter. Guinier held a series of preliminary meetings with former President Pusey and Franklin Ford then Dean of the Faculty. Guinier said in an interview earlier this fall that he came away convinced that Ford and Pusey were sincere in their efforts to help him organize the institute. The Afro Department chairman also indicated that Pusey promised Guinier that...
...December 1969, Guinier met again with Pusey. Ford and Dunlop, who was eventually to become the new Dean of the Faculty. Pusey and Ford made it clear to Guinier that Dunlop would work with him to get financial support for the proposed DuBois Institute. Yet, immediately after this meeting, Dunlop began his efforts to take the project out of Guinier's control. When he found he could not wrest the institute from the chairman's grasp. Dunlop made sure that the institute got no funding from foundations...
FOLLOWING THESE MEETINGS in late 1969 which Guinier has described as "highly encouraging," Dunlop heard nothing from Pusey until March 1970. At that time, Guinier got a letter from Pusey informing him that after consulting with the Council of Deans--which Dunlop heads--Pusey had decided to appoint a University-wide committee to administer the institute. In the letter, Pusey told Guinier that he wanted him to chair the committee...
...Guinier became outraged when he got the letter because he felt that Pusey had violated that April 22, 1969 Faculty resolution by setting up a University-wide committee. Guinier felt that the Executive Committee which had assumed power just before he got Pusey's letter should have administered the institute. Guinier refused to call a full meeting of the committee Pusey appointed. He met with Pusey on May 29, 1970 and has since claimed that Pusey apologized to him for appointing the University wide committee. Guinier has also stated that Pusey again renewed his pledge to help seek financial support...