Word: pattersons
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...Partly in response to the report and partly in response to what happened regarding the department last year," the University set up a five-member executive committee to "act as the department's senior faculty," Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology and member of the committee, said yesterday...
...agree just now on what changes to make. Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology and a committee member, said the department should focus in on the historical and cutural aspects of Afro-American Studies or on socio-political issues faced by blacks today...
...Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology and a member of the committee, said yesterday at the meeting he believes the concentration of the department on the study of the black experience from the black perspective is "not focused enough...
...Patterson said he believes the department should consider more specific areas of the concentration--either the historical and cultural aspects of Afro-American Studies or the "more contemporary sociopolitical" issues faced by blacks today...
...Patterson said the Afro-Am department recruited many faculty more on their "availability and willingness to accept a post at the University" than on the department's critical selection of their academic expertise. "The result was really a hodge-podge of areas in which the professors specialized," Patterson said...