Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More pointedly, there is the problem faced by the black students, who, coming to Harvard, may feel more or less consciously something of a dislocation from the black community. Many students who addressed the committee expressed the need to legitimize, inwardly as well as publicly, their presence at Harvard while other blacks remain in the ghetto, confronting its problems, bearing its burdens. Herein lies one of the major sources of the demand for courses "relevant" to the black experience...
...instance, there is much that might be done to enrich the opportunities available through the less formal academic activities of the crucial freshman year. The reading lists provided freshman as the basis for discussion groups during "orientation week" should provide black students greater opportunity to elect to read and discuss books that bear more directly on areas in which they are interested. A special effort should also be made to enrich the Freshman Seminar offerings. There is precedent for these seminars being taught by instructors with no other Harvard teaching appointment, and we recommend that some Freshman Seminars be taught...
...comparable facilities and activities available to other student groups--to separate black students or their interests entirely from the life of the College Quite the contrary, the students urge such a center as among the steps to be taken "to make the black student feel more involved and less isolated in this community...
Though he is to the left of the NAACP and others, Farmer regards the militants warily. He has watched them take over the civil rights movement (or at least the headlines), take over CORE, and more or less discard his philosophy of nonviolence. "There was so much repression, so much violence against us in the South that many young fellows became disgusted. For example, Stokely Carmichael was in jail with me and was a nonviolent them. A year later, there was Rap Brown--he was a nonviolent...
...guidelines stated in paragraph three are, in the opinion of the CEP, the same guidelines that would be applied to any course or instructor in the Faculty and therefore impose on military studies no more but no less than the same requirements all other courses of study must meet. The only reason for requiring the military to meet more stringent conditions would be political opposition to the military itself, or to the policies' the military are required to implement. We believe that the CEP is acting in accord with prior decisions of the Faculty (as on the draft) that...