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...department vegetates in a limbo, the distance between it and other areas of significant intellectual activities in the University is multiplying at an ever accelerating and alarming rate," Nwafor added...
Guinier again refused to comment specifically on Nwafor's charges. He did say that there has been greater cooperation between the Afro-American Studies Department and other departments this year than in the past. He said that his department has developed working relationships with the East Asian Studies and Economics Departments. Nwafor said in his statement that Geneva Smitherman, lecturer on Afro-American Studies, left the department earlier this year "in sheer disgust at the rapidly deteriorating state of affairs...
Guinier declined to comment on Nwafor's charge, but a source in the department said yesterday that Smitherman left Harvard for personal reasons totally unrelated to conditions within the department or the Universsty...
...Nwafor also said in his statement that the University had moved far too slowly in appointing a search committee to seek additional tenured faculty for the department. "In at least one appointment [to the search committee] and perhaps out of bad faith from some quarters there was a built-in inertia in the composition of the committee," Nwafor said...
...Nwafor yesterday refused to disclose which search committee appointment he was referring to. However, it is probable that Nwafor was making reference to former Dean Dunlop's appointment of Guinier to that body. Guinier refused to comment on Nwafor's charge but said that the search committee had only had preliminary meetings which he described as "harmonious." In his statement, Nwafor said, "Nevertheless it remains imperative that the search committee should discharge its duties with resolute vigor, and to make its mandated appointments forthwith to arrest further disintegration and an imminent collapse in the department...