Word: kilson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began appearing in national publications. A glance at issues of the New York Times for the period reveals articles on black campus political activity--demonstrations, building takeovers resulting in disciplinary action. Students have cited as a culmination of all this publicity the publication of an article by Prof. Martin Kilson in a Sept. 1973 issue of the New York Times Magazine...
...article--entitled "The Black Experience at Harvard"--Kilson contended that black students here isolated themselves and formed below average academically. That article sparked a small flurry of rebuttals and counter-rebuttals...
Evans says he can't recall a single article on the successes of black students here during that period. Negative publicity like the Kilson piece, he claims, has cast black students here in an unfair light, and has seriously hurt recruiting efforts aimed at minorities...
...would walk into the admissions office and say, 'Hello, I'm your tour guide,' and people would have to pause a minute. They didn't expect to see a black as a tour guide after reading Kilson's article...
...less of a social conscience," he said. "Over the past few years there's been a decline in [black] people's belief that they owe something to the people that really got them here--the black community. "Those that they're bringing in conform to a lot of what Kilson wanted--more middle class, and less interested in the community...