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...move seemed a popular one. In an editorial that April, The New York Times cited Harvard's establishment of an Afro-American Studies major as "a striking example of its flexibility and responsiveness to student demands...
...only courses offered in the program would be tutorials: students considering an Afro-Am concentration would have to specify an "allied field" of concentration, in which they would then have to take additional tutorials. Effectively, then, the only way a student could concentrate in Afro-Am would be to major in another field and choose Afro-Am as a minor...
...however, the major problem facing the department is the acquisition of tenured faculty. At present, the department has only "one and one-half" tenured faculty. The chairman, Eileen Southern, is currently on leave in Europe; Ewart Guinier '33, the department's first chairman, is semi-retired, and teaches only half-time. The major roadblock, as the department's supporters see it, is the University's policy that those awarded tenure in Afro-Am must also be tenured in another field of concentration. Finding an expert in two fields, one of them Afro-American Studies, is no easy business. President...
...Steven Biko Fund. Giving money to the University would show support for the amorality of President Bok's March 9 letter to the Harvard community, for the obfuscation of the Corporation in naming the Engelhard Library, and for the University's consistent disregard of student opinion in almost every major issue from South African investments to the Core Curriculum...
...stands Title IX is a major step toward achieving a goal that should have been reached a long time ago. Harvard and other NCAA schools should support the legislation in its present form. Because sports should provide for teamwork, create pride in accomplishment as well as build character, it is not the universities' right to apply these principles to only part of society...