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...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...
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...
...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...