Word: kilson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Martin L. Kilson, assistant professor of Government and Research Fellow in the Center for International Affairs, will receive tenure as a full professor of Government on July...
...Kilson, who helped organize Social Sciences 5, "The Afro-American Experience," is currently a member of the Standing Committee on African Studies...
...Martin Kilson, member of the teaching staff, is not black enough. Says Clyde Lindsay, '69: "Professor Kilson will have to put some emotion in his lectures to let the students know that he has a perspective from which they can view the black man's historical experience in a light perhaps many of them have not considered." A letter to the Crimson from Jeffrey P. Howard, '69, adds this thought: "It should be clear from this point forward that Kilson's views are not particularly black -- he seems to have much more in common with his old-line colleagues...
...complaints have not gone unanswered. Perhaps the most succinct response has come from Kilson, assistant professor of government, who terms the courses "racially bigoted and disgustingly anti-intellectual." In a letter to the Crimson, Kilson made this point: "Blissfull unaware that their bigoted and paranoid outlook makes shambles of scholarship and learning, the black critics of Social Sciences 5 seek to reduce the course to a platform for black nationalistic propaganda...
JEFFREY HOWARD'S rejoinder to Dr. Kilson in his letter to the Crimson on October 31 was very much to the point, particularly in stating that Dr. Kilson should have provided "the natural role of liasion between students and instructors of the course." But, just as an aside, something seemed wrong with the strategy: if we as blacks have learned little else from our curious history in this society, we should have learned to avoid involvement in polemics that pit black against black to the detriment of our common struggle. For in this way we become the true "pawns," while...