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...decision was the first victory for those at Harvard who hoped the Review Committee would recommend major structural changes in the Afro-American Studies program. The group--composed of Martin Kilson, professor of Government, Orlando Paterson, professor of Sociology and Deap Epps--supported this resolution and submitted a memorandum to Dean Dunlop explaining why the review should not be carried out internally...
Kilson, Peterson and Epps were busy during these early months of the review preparing memoranda for submission to the Committee. By mid-December, Kilson and Paterson had presented three documents to the Committee. In those, they urged that the Department be restructured to make it a joint concentration along with established disciplines like Sociology, History or Economics. They also called for joint appointments of faculty members between Afro-American Studies and other departments, which they argued, are essential to attract first rate instructors...
...memoranda urged that students be removed from all positions of administration within the Department. Students presently serve on the Standing Committee and Executive Committee of the Department, and Paterson and Kilson argued that they are not qualified to exercise scholarly authority. Since its inception, students have played a role in developing curriculum and choosing faculty members in the Department...
Guinier still refused to submit any written documents to the Committee. Instead he got his daughter (a 1971 Radcliffe graduate), concentrators in the Department, and two lecturers in the Department, to submit memoranda to the Review Committee refuting the Kilson-Paterson arguments...
...general conclusion of the documents was that if the reforms Kilson and Paterson recommended were implemented, the Department's efforts to develop an innovative program would be sabotaged...