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...colleagues from Afro-American Studies, I plan to be here for the next 35 or 36 years, if I survive through the half-life period, so I feel I have a special stake in Harvard's posture on this issue. Now, let me refer to something my colleague Prof. Mansfield said. I don't think this is a question that necessarily should divide us along left-right lines. I think I feel very strongly about the Soviet Union as well, but I think the issue here is that because of the compostion and special character of the South African apartheid...
...question of stock ownership, what can justify this disproportion? I think there were two answers given in the debate last time given by Professors Walzer and Higonnet. Prof. Walzer said he would have emphasized rather more the particular cruelty and the particular degradation that was involved in singling out a nation or a religious group or a race for systematic oppression. Why did my friend say "nation, religious group, or race" and not say "class"? Isn't genocide also the genocide of a class? I beg leave of good Dean Bowersock to translate the word "genus" in genocide...
Secondly, Prof. Higonnet said what made South Africa more of a problem than Auschwitz or Cambodia was precisely that South Africans were very bourgeois, were very much like ourselves. Their crimes were bourgeois crimes and the evil that went on in that nation was the kind that we found tolerable, perhaps at a different level. So Prof. Higonnet recognizes the problem of equating apartheid and genocide. But apply his doctrine to Prof. Cudjoe. Notice that he doesn't say we are like the South Africans because we are white, but because we are bourgeois. Prof. Cudjoe is undoubtedly a bourgeois...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has found it sufficient to have one tenured professor in the department--Prof. Eileen Southern, who is away in Europe studying music while her department is under fire...
Geochemical Approaches to the Study of the Origin of Life--Prof. C. Ponnamperuma, University of Maryland, Rm. 102, Geological Museum...