Word: patterson
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...have consumed a substantial amount of energy during the past decade. Huggins's greatest challenge will be developing a highquality academic program for concentrators within the department, not an easy task for a department that has consistently plagued the Faculty, and its students, with doubts about its worthiness. Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology and a former member of the executive committee overseeing the department, said as recently as the fall of 1979 about Afro-American studies, "Students are acutely conscious of the fact the study now has very little status, and have a right to be concerned." He added...
...between him and members of the executive committee caused the committee to deny him promotion. The committee's decision not to offer a tenured position to Eugene D. Genovese, a Marxist historian at the University of Rochester, drew much criticism from students and led to the resignation of Orlando Patterson from the committee...
...Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, said yesterday. "We're back to the elitist view that the humanities should be supported by the rich...
...Patterson, one of eight Harvard professors, whom the NEH has granted about $50,000 to lead this summer's seminars for the faculty of smaller institutions, called the NEH cutbacks "symbolic." The amount of money is chicken-feed," he said. "In a budget of billions of dollars, when you start fooling around with this kind of money, you're doing it for other reasons...
...scope of the blacklist may soon widen to include not only athletes who have played in South Africa and those who have visited there for sporting events, but also athletes who play against South African teams on their own soil. Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Floyd Patterson was named simply because he attended a boxing bout held in South Africa as a spectator. The British cricketer expelled from Guyana, Robin Jackman, was so treated because he is married to a South African and spends the whiter in that country. Fearing boycotts, Australia has even refused the South African Springbok rugby...