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...only member of the Afro- American Studies Department to break publicly with Guinier, Azinna Nwafor, an assistant professor, also hailed the committee's report. In a memorandum to the committee, he had called for the optional use of joint concentrations and joint appointments to pilot the Department into the mainstream of the University...
...from Harvard--have little knowledge of how the normal Harvard bureaucracy operates. They have been unable to use the additional influence the new Faculty legislation gives them. Further, it would be disloyal for many Afro faculty members to oppose Guinier for with the exceptions of Ephraim Isaac and Azinna Nwafor '63, the chairman brought every one of them to Harvard...
...Stuart Hughes Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, presented a resolution to the Faculty at the December 12 meeting urging it to reaffirm the University's commitment to Afro-American Studies. Nwafor said yesterday that the resolution should be modified to say that the Department be "equipped to bring fresh viewpoints to bear in the study of its subject...
...Nwafor said that it is also necessary for the Faculty Council to specify that the director of the proposed DuBois Research Institute hold a tenured appointment in Afro-American Studies "to provide such an Institute with a coherence and focus as also a determining influence...
...statement Nwafor disagreed with the Review Committee's assertion that "Afro-American are neither African nor Anglo-American" and that "the unique character of the Afro-American experience may be found in its essential dissimilarity to that of these two groups...