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...Guinier said the visiting committee never interviewed him. He added that no Afro-Am scholars with national reputations served on the committee. "How can they presume to make suggestions on how Harvard's Afro-American studies department should be developed?" he said...
...Ewart Guinier '33, professor of Afro-American Studies and former department chairman, said yesterday the committee's conclusions are invalid because its members were unqualified and did not consult Afro-Am faculty...
...said the committee consulted with every Afro-Am Faculty member, including Guinier...
...department now has one and a half tenured professors--Southern and Ewart Guinier '33, who is semi-retired. The lack of senior faculty in Afro-Am drew harsh criticism last spring, as students held a series of demonstrations charging Harvard--and Rosovsky in particular--with failing to search aggressively for tenured faculty, depriving the department of funding and planning to demote it to an interdisciplinary committee...
...Guinier opposes the proposal, and the junior faculty in the department have refused to comment on the idea. Estis said last week that students supporting the department "have not yet decided whether it (the executive committee) would be a positive or negative step...