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...Institute has been designed not only to promote graduate research, but also to invite visiting researchers to come to Harvard, to "conduct a series of extra-curricular seminars for students, both graduate and undergraduate," and to "offer...summer research grants to undergraduates at Harvard and Radcliffe." (Quotes from the "prospectus" of the Afro-American Studies Department's three-year Report...
...Center should, like the Institute of Politics, have a student advisory board." The Standing Committee to Develop the Afro-American Studies Department reports in September of 1969 that "the Institute will be overseen by a Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers and a Faculty-Student Committee." The "Prospectus" from the Afro-American Studies Department's Three-year Report (October, 1972) plainly states that the Faculty-Student Advisory Committee "would be responsible for recommending to the Institute the prospective Fellows and Associates for the following year," plus the awarding of summer research grants which would be for undergraduates. DISC...
...Afro-American Studies Department in order to do its work needs tenured professors and research money. The two are inextricable. Having the DuBois Institute within the department as the original prospectus of 1969 called for would solve the problem of research money. Not imposing joint appointments would solve the problem of securing tenured faculty for the department...
...Stake's victims now admit embarrassedly that they should have known better. Hoyt Ammidon, chairman of U.S. Trust Co., concedes that the oil department of his own bank took a dim view of Home-Stake, but he disregarded its opinion and invested $114,000. A revised Home-Stake prospectus issued in 1971 should have raised red flags for businessmen, if they read it. Robert Metzger, president of Resource Programs, a firm that sells advice to investors in oil and gas, says that he and his colleagues used to "sit down and read the Home-Stake prospectus and laugh." Among...
...University committed itself to funding the black-studies center back in 1969, at the same time it decided to charter the Afro-American Studies Department. The Faculty approved a prospectus for the Institute, written by the Standing Committee to Develop Afro-American Studies, in September 1969. At the end of that year President Nathan M. Pusey '28 appointed an interdepartmental committee to oversee the Institute's development. It was at this point that the University's DuBois troubles began...