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...then 30, was fatally shot at San Quentin in what prison authorities called an escape attempt. Last week, ironically, Drumgo, 26, and Clutchette, 29, were acquitted of the Soledad guard's murder by an all-white jury in San Francisco. Now, Angela Davis, 28, the former U.C.L.A. philosophy instructor and proclaimed Communist, was on trial for murder, kidnaping and criminal conspiracy in supposedly helping Jonathan in the fatal attempt to free his brother. She did so, said Prosecutor Harris, because of her "passion for George Jackson that knew no bounds...
...important question with which I would like to deal. If these people are so concerned about integration in Harvard's departments, why don't they scream and holler about the fact that the Biology department has no black people on its faculty? It does not even have a black instructor in Biology. The same is true, that there are no black faculty or instructors, in the Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, English and many other departments here at Harvard. What is the reason for this? Have these departments made a concerted effort to find qualified black people to teach on their faculties...
...addition, it was during this period that the position of instructor was abolished. Instructors were junior faculty members who often carried much of the tutorial load: in effect the addition of teaching fellows was simply the replacement of badly paid instructors with worse-paid teaching fellows. Bearing these facts in mind, it is significant that the number of fifths has already begun to drop, and this at a time when Harvard's undergraduate enrollment is increasing. Does the Harvard administration regard House courses, tutorials, and other seminar-type courses as frill, to be cut at the first signs of 'financial...
Oppression. Many of these courses emphasize a long history of discrimination and denigration. Joanna Russ, an English instructor at Cornell, is trying to change the rules whereby, as she recalls her own education, "we studied E.M. Forster but not Virginia Woolf. We read Thackeray, who was splendid, but not Charlotte Bronte, who was considered eccentric, minor and dull." In history, too, the emphasis has been changed to the study of "invisible women" whose achievements have been largely forgotten: Dorothea Dix, whose exposes revolutionized conditions in mental institutions a century ago; Sojourner Truth, a former slave and influential abolitionist...
...bridge the gap between academia and the community. "Bring friends, daughters, mothers or neighbors," Barbara Kessel urges her class on the Socialization Process of Women. Teaching methods have had to be devised by trial and error. "I've erred both on too little consciousness raising and not enough," Instructor Kessel admits. She says she started out by asking her students to go out and observe women in various roles in society, but she recalls that "one girl raised her hand and asked 'What should we be looking for?' I realized that first they needed a course...