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Evidently the sessions did not go well for Guinier. It is highly unlikely he would have publicly criticized the Committee if he felt his discussions with them had been fruitful. Guinier again attacked the Administration for setting up the Review Committee with people from outside the University. He called the Administration racist and said that it had not offered the assistance necessary to help the Afro-American Studies Department develop during its three-year existence...
...Guinier still refused to submit any written documents to the Committee. Instead he got his daughter (a 1971 Radcliffe graduate), concentrators in the Department, and two lecturers in the Department, to submit memoranda to the Review Committee refuting the Kilson-Paterson arguments...
...topics the Review Committee has been considering is Guinier's status as chairman of the Department. It is a tradition at Harvard, but not a steadfast rule, the department chairmanships rotate among its members every three years. Guinier's terms ends this academic year...
...memorandum submitted to the committee, Stanlake and Tommie Samkange, two lecturers in the Department who got their jobs through Guinier, urged that he be allowed to remain as chairman. Because the Department is still in its infancy, the Samkange's asked the Committee to recommend to the Faculty and Dunlop that Guinier be allowed to remain as chairman...
...Guinier has also tried to develop student support in his efforts to retain the chairmanship. He donated $500 to the Pan-African Liberation Committee during the occupation of Mass Hall, and then he was the first witness in behalf of the PALC and Afro defendants at CRR hearings investigating the takeover. Guinier now expects that if he needs students to demonstrate in his behalf, should he be dismissed as chairman, they will come to his assistance...