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Harrington Benjamin, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, said yesterday the Council did not reach a decision, but he expected it would come to an agreement by the end of this academic year...
Eileen J. Southern, chairman of Afro-American Studies, now makes all hiring decisions. She is on leave this semester. Ewart Guinier '33, professor of Afro-American Studies and the other tenured member in the department, is semiretired...
WHEN TALCOTT PARSONS, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, died last week in Munich at the age of 76, an era in the history of sociology drew to a close. In a distinguished career of nearly half a century, Parsons, the first chairman of Harvard's Department of Social Relations, established sociology as a legitimate academic discipline that was simultaneously systematic and broad-ranging in scope. Through his translation of the German sociologist Max Weber's Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft [The Theory of Social and Economic Organization], and, later, through the development of his own "structural-functional" theory, Parsons sought to provide scholars...
...professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Thursday night suggested that the MIT community take legal action against the university's corporation to force it to use its proxy power in South Africa-based firms to oppose apartheid...
Willard R. Johnson, professor of Political Science at MIT, said yesterday that although the corporation decided last year to adopt a policy of shareholder responsibility rather than divestiture of its South Africa-related stocks, "it has not lived up to even that more moderate course...