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...article that appeared yesterday in the Boston Globe magazine sparked another in the series of debates between Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, and Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department...
...Guinier said yesterday that Kilson is "deliberately lying" to promote the acceptance of fewer freshman blacks into American colleges...
...Guinier said data provided by the Harvard and Radcliffe admissions departments that appeared in the June 1973 issue of the Harvard Bulletin showed no substantive differences between black and white students on board scores and grade point averages...
...search committee may be facing the same problem that Afro has had to deal with for the last three and a half years: keeping Guinier and the rest of the Faculty happy, all at the same time. Guinier is not looking forward to leaving the chairmanship of Afro, and sources say that he has been trying to get his close friend and associate, historian Hollis Lynch, appointed instead of Blassingame...
...That Guinier can prevail in his preference is unlikely, but given the administration's sensitivity to the three-year-old Afro controversy, the committee seems to be taking care not to step on Guinier's toes...