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Unlike Kilson, who believes that students do not have the ability to exercise scholarly authority by serving on the Department's executive committee. Nwafor feels that if changes are made in the department's structure so that bright students are attracted, they could play an important role in the formulation of academic policy. Given the present orientation of the department. Nwafor says that the students' function now is to serve as a rubber stamp for departmental decisions...
Another recommendation which Nwafor made was that the Department hire a first rate Afro-American historian. He explained that "it has not been possible to do so largely, I think, because such people as one may have had in mind to fill such posts with distinction are often seen as threats and, in any case, may not possess the requisite black-nationalist ideology--breathing fire and pleading commiseration...
...complete the development of the Department. Nwafor urged the Review Committee to recommend that a graduate program be developed and the Du Bois Institute--an Afro-American studies research institute mandated in 1969--finally be established. For the past two years Guinier has been struggling with the Administration in an effort to get them to make a financial commitment to help set up the institute. Dean Dunlop said last spring that he had no comment on Guinier's charges that the Administration was trying to bury the Du Bois Institute. "The money is not available and other than that...
...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...
...this point, it is difficult to determine what course of action Kilson. Guinier and Nwafor will take once the Review Committee issues its report. But when the Committee report and any minority positions are submitted to Dunlop--who will hand it on to the Faculty council for their recommendations to the Faculty--there are sure to be more efforts to influence the votes of both bodies...