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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many students, beseiged by literature in recent weeks that has marked the tenth anniversary of the Harvard strike, have in fact been surprised to learn that the creation of an autonomous Afro-American Studies Department has been one major demand of striking Harvard students in 1969. More surprising than the subsequent granting of the demand is that, after ten years, the department has come full circle: a visiting committee is at present judging its viability as a department, and presenting recommendations on the status of the department to the Board of Overseers...
...Harvard, however, the results would not be quite as dramatic. Most colleges and universities provide an average of ten sports for men and six for women, according to a recent Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) report. Harvard now has 19 sports for men and 17 for women...
...more recent years, some guests of note have been folk singer and comedian David Bromberg, Ronee Blakly, Tom Paxton and Martin Mull, who guest hosted NBC's Tonight Show two weeks...
...read with some dismay the recent letter to The Crimson signed by a dozen teaching fellows in Government (April 23, 1979). The authors of this letter urge students and faculty neither to boycott classes nor, presumably, to engage in any demonstrations organized in whole or part by the Coalition for Awareness and Action. Why? Because to do so would be to tacitly accept their "irresponsible accusation" about American society as well as "the bad judgment it encourages...
Just like when TV networks pit recent movies against Monday Night Football, this effluence of jazz activity will force some hard and painful decisions. Close to home, Jonathan Swift's is hosting two events of particular interest this week. Sunday and Monday they will present Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra, a happening by any standard. Sun Ra is simply outrageous; his age and background are unclear, but he wanders around our planet saying things like: The intergalactic music in its present phase of presentation will be correlative to the key synopsis of the past and to the uncharted multipotential...