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...statement released yesterday, Azina Nwafor '64 said that "decisions within the department continue to remain highly arbitrary, in which faculty members are often not even consulted on matters of direct concern to their particular activities...
Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the department, said yesterday Nwafor's contention that the University has rejected departmental appointments is an "absolute lie." Guinier said that Nwafor had little knowledge of how the department operates because Nwafor has attended so few Faculty meetings and has had little contact with his departmental colleagues and the undergraduate concentrators...
...Nwafor has not come to any Faculty meetings this year and last year only came to one of fifteen meetings," Guinier said. Nwafor said yesterday Guinier's statement that he knows nothing about how the department operates is "perposterous...
...department has been deluged with requests from outside the University seeking advice on how to set up an Afro-American Studies program, Guinier added. Guinier said that Nwafor "has his own axe to grind." Nwafor's five year term appointment as an assistant professor runs out next June and he has received notification from Guinier that he will not be reappointed. Guinier said that Nwafor or any other junior member of the department should present himself to the committee seeking additional tenured Afro-American Studies faculty members...
...Nwafor said yesterday that he offered similar criticisms of the department to the Afro-American Studies Review Committee two years ago and they were now part of the public record. He said his statement had nothing to do with his position in the department and he does not consider the status of his appointment at Harvard to be finalized. Many recommendations of the Review Committee now "remain no more than empty pious wishes," Nwafor said in his statement. "There is still no General Education course being offered by the department, and the resolution that every student should be encouraged...