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Kilson, Peterson and Epps were busy during these early months of the review preparing memoranda for submission to the Committee. By mid-December, Kilson and Paterson had presented three documents to the Committee. In those, they urged that the Department be restructured to make it a joint concentration along with established disciplines like Sociology, History or Economics. They also called for joint appointments of faculty members between Afro-American Studies and other departments, which they argued, are essential to attract first rate instructors...
...memoranda urged that students be removed from all positions of administration within the Department. Students presently serve on the Standing Committee and Executive Committee of the Department, and Paterson and Kilson argued that they are not qualified to exercise scholarly authority. Since its inception, students have played a role in developing curriculum and choosing faculty members in the Department...
Guinier still refused to submit any written documents to the Committee. Instead he got his daughter (a 1971 Radcliffe graduate), concentrators in the Department, and two lecturers in the Department, to submit memoranda to the Review Committee refuting the Kilson-Paterson arguments...
...BEEN just as active as Guinier over the past year. As soon as the Review Committee was established, Kilson began meeting frequently with his allies, Dean Epps and Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology. They decided that rather than making any public pronouncement about the Department they would write memoranda which they would submit to the Committee and then circulate as widely as possible. By circulating these memoranda, Kilson feels he can take away the base of Guinier's support on the Faculty--white liberal members...
Kilson believes that white liberals in 1969 submitted to pressures from militant black students to create an inferior program. He hopes by circulating the nine memoranda which his group has produced throughout the University that white liberals will recognize the supposed inferiority of the present Department and vote to make substantial revisions in its administration and structure...