Word: profs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot understand why Prof. Martin Kilson's attacks against the Afro-American Studies Department receive so much attention while rebuttals seem to be few and far between. If a review of a department is made, it should be an objective review, without excessive treatment of blatant accusations...
Black students and faculty are aware of Kilson's ideology, but for some reason whites have never come to grips with his position. Indeed, Prof. Kison is entitled to his opinion and his professorship in the Government department, yet so are Blackss entitled to study Ibo or AFro-Am lit, or Liberation Politics without being told they are satisfying "emotional need." Kilson is convinced that "Afro-Am" means second class. Tell me, Sir, do you also back Herrnstein's theory? Or is it that you fear falling under the Afro-American Studies department if indeed it passes review? June Cross...
...House, Holmes Living Rm.; April 24, 4:15 p.m., Dunster House SCR. VISUAL ARTS AND CRAFTS: April 11, 4:30 p.m., Eliot House Library; April 25, 7:30 p.m., Agassiz Living Rm. Students who wish to express views on the subject in writing may address the Committee care of Prof. James Ackerman, Fogg Museum...
...dismayed to see the report in the Crimson that Dean Whitlock had co-signed charges with Prof. Herrnstein regarding alleged interference with Herrnstein's "academic freedom and freedom of movement...
...Harvard has not met its commitment to develop the department. The Faculty Resolution of April 1969 which established the department charged that it be "innovative." President Bok, himself has said that the department should be one of the most "exciting" departments in the University (quote from Prof. Turner's colloquium series lecture). Yet, at every turn such attempts at innovation have been met with attacks from all quarters...