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...public discussions the main participants were Martin Kilson, professor of Government, and Ewart Guinier, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department With the Review Committee's final report almost finished, another scholar joined the debate when Azinna Nwafor, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, released a section of a memorandum he had submitted to the Review Committee. In an interview last week. Nwafor offered additional suggestions for reforms in the Department's administration and structure...
...memorandum. Nwafor writes, "There surely should be no reasons why the Departments of Government History, Social Relations etc, should not be able to draw fully from the resources of our own department at the same time as we seek to extract the wealth of their resources for the benefit of our faculty and students One danger in fact, has been the underutilization by the rest of the University of the considerable abilities that have sometimes existed within the Department...
...memorandum. Nwafor explains that presenting only a black nationalist line can lead to the development of an "intellectual apartheid" where the department is separated from the mainstream of intellectual life in the university community Nwafor states that "the impression is distinctly conveyed that a serious tudent is best served by steering clear of the offerings of the department...
Nwafor concludes his memorandum by saying "the black experience should be considered in the context of a totality. It should not be treated in isolation and should indeed have meaning for all students at Harvard and it must not occupy a precarious, marginal existence on the outermost fringes of the University's intellectual life...
...Government's General Accounting Office recently filtered a gentle reminder down through the various federal bureaus: the final date was drawing near for nominations for the Maurice H. Stans Award for Distinguished Financial Management. The memorandum noted that the broadest reasonable interpretation of the phrase "financial management" could be used in putting forward candidates...