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...year-round celebrities, like James Taylor, Carly Simon, and James Cagney, but these keep a lower profile than the brash intruders like Frank Sinatra--who arrives annually in yachts 100 feet long and longer. And there are intellectuals to provide some sophistication, ranging from Doris Kearns to Ewart Guinier '33, from Rev. Harvey Cox to Roger Baldwin...
...relationship between the DuBois Institute and the Afro Department is becoming an issue in the proceedings of a committee that has been searching for new Afro faculty for over a year. Guinier says that candidates are concerned with the availability of research facilities and that several of them have been dissuaded from coming to Harvard by the fact that they cannot be guaranteed full access to DuBois...
...Guinier says he is also concerned about Leonard's insistance on separating the DuBois Institute from any teaching functions. "It's hard to think that anything Harvard does should not help students. It's a betrayal of the purposes of the institute. Research has to relate to life," he says...
...Guinier was joined in his crusade against the Leonard proposals last spring by a student-faculty group called the United Committee of Third World Organizations. It is not clear how either Guinier or the Third World group will deal with the issue this fall, but one of its leaders said during the summer his group will again make its voice heard on DuBois if student support can be generated for their position...
Because of the appointment's importance, the way Bok goes about making it is of some significance. Leonard has indicated that the new advisory board will play a large role in searching out the director. In his letter to Guinier last January, Bok said there would be a full and formal search, adding that Guinier would have an opportunity to air his opinions on the directorship in the course of the process...