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...that his visiting professor contract be renewed. Foster will confine his academic duties to teaching courses at the Graduate School of Education next year, where he also worked this year on a joint program that included the Afro affiliation. Rivera calls Foster's experiences within the department "the Ephraim Isaac case" of this academic year, a reference to the former associate professor of Afro-American Studies who was denied tenure by Afro in 1975, sparking a major furor within the department...
...itself to personalities alone. For several years, many students have criticized Southern's alleged neglect of Pan-Africanist perspectives in Afro course offerings, charging that the chairman wants to firmly establish an "Americo-oriented" approach to academic research in the department. Last year's decisions to withhold tenure from Isaac and Pierre-Michel Fontain, former lecturer on Afro-American Studies--both recognized Pan-Africanists--have been attributed directly to Southern's influence, and Afro concentrators Peter Hardie '77 and Bruce Jacobs '77 attacked these policies in a January 18 opinion piece in The Crimson...
...Afro's charter. The issue of full-time tenured Afro faculty opens up still another Pandora's box of troubles in the department, controversies that can be reduced to two basic developments: the introduction of joint tenure appointments in Afro over the last few years and the case of Isaac, which underscores the tenure problems peculiar to Afro, in the judgement of many students and some junior faculty members...
...capital and two clients, Robert Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) and Newscaster Charles Collingwood. Since then, Josephson has built I.C.M. into a $30 million-a-year multinational company, embracing agents, a concert-booking bureau and a TV station. His 2,250 clients include Actor Laurence Olivier, Playwright Tennessee Williams, Musician Isaac Stern and Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Josephson's empire has grown so vast that he now spends most of his time delegating and supervising, although he stitches together immensely complicated deals (current project: a sequel to Gone With the Wind). "His astuteness is with procedure, and he has an accounting machine...
Murray Gell-Mann, Sc.D., physicist. Louise Nevelson, L.H.D., sculptor. Isaac Stern, Mus.D., violinist...