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...expect to be here tonight,” Classics Department Chair John M. Duffy said. “This is a gathering for us to express solidarity and our condolences to Isaac??s family. He won appreciation and esteem among faculty and students...
...movies if you’re not making the stuff that you enjoy,” he says. “I would like to be in the position and mindset where I’m able to make movies that have meaning.” “Isaac??s definitely a romantic at heart, and that comes out in his movies,” says Nathan J. Dern ’07, Ravishankara’s roommate since freshman year who has acted in most of his fictional pieces and started the Star Wars tribute band...
...Isaac??s tenure denial eventually sparked protests among the black community at Harvard, who argued that the University was not firmly committed to black studies. In 1979, the Committee to Strengthen Afro-American Studies held a protest in the yard with over 500 participants...
...April of 1982, Harvard alumni got involved with the cause as well. The Alumni Committee to Support Afro-American Studies was formed, with support by the Black Students Association. The group sponsored rallies throughout the spring and used Isaac??s case as a cause celebre, arguing that Isaac should be reinstated at the University due to his stellar teaching record, the popularity of his classes, and his commitment to studying African history and culture. The group argued that the tenure denial was a political act, meant to force the department away from its “African roots...
...Whether Isaac??s tenure denial was based on a desire to phase out the department or as a move on the part of University administration to directly control the concentration of study for political reasons remains unclear...