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...Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the department, said yesterday Nwafor's contention that the University has rejected departmental appointments is an "absolute lie." Guinier said that Nwafor had little knowledge of how the department operates because Nwafor has attended so few Faculty meetings and has had little contact with his departmental colleagues and the undergraduate concentrators...
...Nwafor has not come to any Faculty meetings this year and last year only came to one of fifteen meetings," Guinier said. Nwafor said yesterday Guinier's statement that he knows nothing about how the department operates is "perposterous...
...department has been deluged with requests from outside the University seeking advice on how to set up an Afro-American Studies program, Guinier added. Guinier said that Nwafor "has his own axe to grind." Nwafor's five year term appointment as an assistant professor runs out next June and he has received notification from Guinier that he will not be reappointed. Guinier said that Nwafor or any other junior member of the department should present himself to the committee seeking additional tenured Afro-American Studies faculty members...
...Guinier again refused to comment specifically on Nwafor's charges. He did say that there has been greater cooperation between the Afro-American Studies Department and other departments this year than in the past. He said that his department has developed working relationships with the East Asian Studies and Economics Departments. Nwafor said in his statement that Geneva Smitherman, lecturer on Afro-American Studies, left the department earlier this year "in sheer disgust at the rapidly deteriorating state of affairs...
...committee has met four times since April 10, with Walter Leonard, a special assistant to the President, as its chairman. Besides Guinier and Leonard, the members are Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, Preston N. Williams, Houghton Professor of Religion and Contemporary Change; John F. Kain, professor of Economics; DanielAaron, professor of English; James M. Jones, assistant professor of Social Psychology; and Sarah L. Lightfoot, assistant professor of Education...