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...Ewart Guinier, professor of Afro-American Studies and chairman of the department, said Friday he did not "know how many people are concentrating in the department, since the Registrar hasn't given us the figure yet." Guinier added, however, that no one who applied for admission to the department and was interviewed had been rejected...
Paul Spickard 72 an Afro-American Studies concentrator said he thought "there are approximately 25 or 30 people in the department," but that as many as 150 have attended lectures in Afro-American Studies 95, a colloquium required of all concentrators. Guinier is coordinator of the colloquium which meets once a week in large groups to hear guest lecturers and once a week in small seminars. Meetings with guest speakers are open to non-concentrators, Nwafor said...
...press conference yesterday, Pusey flatly denied the first charge-that Guinier was chosen in an abnormal way. The Faculty did vote last Spring to seat students on a committee looking for a chairman for the department. But the vote retained the normal system of review by an ad hoe committee, and Guinier was approved under that system...
Dean Ford said that Guinier's appointment "can easily be defended in terms of his qualifications for leading the new department." Guinier studied at Harvard and City College of New York as an undergraduate, and got a law degree from New York University...
...History professor called the Evans and Novak comment on Guinier's political background "pure and obvious red-baiting." The attack on Guinier's affiliation with the American Labor Party came almost verbatim from an article called "Harvard Hires Pink Prof." in a recent issue of the right-wing newspaper, Human Events...