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...response to charges of "institutional racism" from Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor of Social Relations, the GSAS has restructured the financing of its 15 Black Prize Fellowships in order to restore the incentive for departments to recruit black graduate students...
...surprise move the Committee on Fellowships of the GSAS met yesterday and unanimously approved funding changes similar to those proposed by Pettigrew as alternatives to the Committee's original plan of March...
...Pettigrew had charged that this plan would discriminate against the departments with the most commitment to black students, and would present an unfair choice between funding ordinary students and Black Fellows-whose grant of $5200 a year is the highest of its kind in the University...
...This system of taxing all the departments, even those which through no fault of their own have few black applicants, is a true incentive to recruitment, in the original spirit of the Black Prize Fellowships, because it doesn't come out of each department's limited funds," Pettigrew said yesterday...
...Pettigrew had proposed as a compromise that half of the cost of all the Fellowships be covered by general funds, and half by the individual departments...