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WILSON'S AMENDMENT failed because he could not get a significant number of white social scientists to unhesitatingly endorse the concept of joint concentrations. In the debate some white Faculty members acted as if they felt Kilson and Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, had some hidden reason for wanting required joint concentrations. Also I doubt that Patterson's and Kilson's arguments were accorded the same respect that a white faculty member's arguments would have been, despite their obvious scholarly competence...
...planned concentration only in the Afro-American Studies Department. I had cross-registered in Harvard courses while at B.U., and spoken with a tutorial instructor here about my transfer, yet the single most important influence on my transfer was the prospect of working with Dr. Orlando Patterson, a sociologist renowned for his historical studies of slavery...
After my transfer, much I had anticipated disappeared. Dr. Patterson had decided he'd rather switch than fight as he became a newly tenured professor in the Sociology Department. Distinguished visiting professors were found an impractical substitute for permanent faculty appointments, and an unusually large number of courses have been postponed each year. These difficulties and others are dealt with in the Report of the Committee to Review the Department of Afro-American Studies. During my first semester in the department, I became increasingly aware that I would not be able to do honors work in the department. The department...
...Afro-American Studies Department proved inadequate, and since I had come to Harvard to study under Dr. Patterson in the first place, I chose to joint concentrate in Sociology. I was required to take an introductory Sociology course and a methods course. In my case, I felt these "disciplinary" courses proved to be pure punishment. I think that my time was wasted. During this period of required courses I could have supplemented my background with additional directed study or perhaps course work in other departments...
Most Senior Tutors take the post for three years. Patterson, professor of Sociology in addition to his administrative duties, has been Senior Tutor for two years. Starr is in his third year at Eliot House...