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...Ewart Guinier '33 symbolically handed over the chairmanship of the Afro-American Studies Department to his successor, Eileen Southern, in a farewell dinner at Mather House last night...
Racism: It seems sometimes that people avoid that term with a passion. I think one of the reasons Professor Ewart Guinier turns some people off is that he raises his voice when he says "racism." Everyone, white and black, knows he's crazy, because racism is only in South Boston. It is a minor problem, just an idiosyncrasy that some white people picked up somewhere. Nothing serious, of course. Apartheid? That could never happen here in the States. It seems to me that there are blacks as dark as the South Africans, and whites as whites as the Afrikaaners here...
...reason that Afro was not allowed to make the nominations for permanent posts in the department, as is normally the case, Rosovsky said, is because "tenure decision have to be made by tenured people" and Afro had only one tenured person, Eward Guinier '33, chairman of Afro...
...Guinier, who has disagreed with the administration over the search procedure, said Sunday he had not been notified about any new tenured faculty in Afro...
Southern, who is only the second person and the first woman to receive tenure in Afro since the department was established in 1969, will assume the chairmanship of the department this spring from Ewart Guinier '33, who will be 66 years old--the mandatory age at which chairmen must retire...