Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Crimson reports that in 1971, the number of concentrators dropped by 76 per cent and course enrollment dropped 58 per cent (9/10/79), it does not report that Afro Am Studies faced a concerted assault from the black tenured professors at Harvard Martin Kilson and Orlando Patterson, who baited black students and the department with the slander of inferiority. This attack has been taken up by senior tutors, proctors in the Yard, freshman/women advisors out of ignorance and prejudice. On the basis of his past statements regarding Afro-Am Studies, I submit that Prof. Patterson disqualifies himself from...
...despite such frank assessments of the department's troubles, Rosovsky, Ferguson and Patterson say they understand what is hanging on the committee's work. "People have already watched what we're doing here and it's easy for other institutions to say, 'If Harvard can't do it, we can't,'" Rosovsky says. Ferguson agrees. "What happens here will influence other programs all over the country--a failure might very well have the effect of stunting and stifling efforts that were so painfully commenced," he notes...
...legitimacy and intellectual excitement of Afro-American Studies, and want to make sure other Harvard community members think so, too. Although efforts to help Afro-Am have a long history of failure, they remain confident. "This really is a last ditch effort--if this doesn't work, nothing will," Patterson says. Rosovsky and the rest of the committee are laying cautious odds that it will, but this year should prove a crucial test of that optimism
...committee members are C. Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law (chairman); David H. Donald, Warren Professor of American History; Richard Freeman, professor of Economics; Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology; and Southern...
...Patterson said last week he hopes the committee will be able to "bring the department in line with other Harvard departments. If a student leaves this University with a degree in Afro-American Studies, it should carry the same weight as any other degree at Harvard--and I suspect it doesn...