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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waited in the lobby of the Loeb Drama Center, the Faculty hotly debated whether the concentration in Afro-American Studies should be a full department or an interdisciplinary committee. Although the Faculty voted at that tense meeting to make Af-Am a department, that debate continues today. Over the past ten years, the University and the department have clashed over budgeting and tenuring professors, but this year rumors of possible demotion to a committee added fuel to these smoldering disagreements, sparking renewed student protests...
Citing another issue that Afro-American Studies Faculty have debated with the University over the past ten years, Guinier says Rosovsky is weakening the department by insisting professors hold joint appointment in another department along with Afro-American Studies...
...Faculty has an opportunity to remedy its past deficiencies through legislation proposed by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, requiring professors to teach more tutorials. The major portion of the legislation simply recognizes the longstanding but blantantly disregarded legislation passed in 1958 requiring that no more than 30 per cent of a department's tutors be teaching fellows and no less than 30 per cent be full time Faculty members...
...Study Program, granting $2 million to Harvard and $400,000 to Radcliffe in 1979-80. CWSP provides a subsidy of 80 per cent of students' salaries for jobs with non-profit organizations, including Harvard. Lawrence E. Maguire '58, director of student employment, says the program has doubled in the past three years and probably will double again next year. CWSP funds are available only to students on financial aid. About 1500 Harvard and Radcliffe students took jobs under the program in 1978-79. Maguire says that work study has become "a spearhead into the community--because...
...Harvard lured him back. Lopez describes himself as "a writer and a lecturer." Last year he offered a seminar at the Institute of Politics on "Chicano Political Development." Next year, Lopez says, he will be teaching a General Education course on the development of Hispanic communities in America. His past work includes My Brother Lyndon, a biography of the President written with Sam Houston Johnson, and Afro-6, a novel about urban street life of New York. Lopez is a jack of all trades--at least when it comes to writing. His next book is entitled Eros and Ethos...