Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After the assassination of Martin Luther King last April, the Faculty set up a special committee to study the problems of black students at Harvard and the role of Afro-American Studies in the Harvard curriculum. In January, the committee finally released its report. It urged the Faculty to set up a degree program in Afro-American Studies, and the Faculty voted on February 11 to approve the plan. Selected sections of the Rosovsky Report dealing with the Afro-American Studies program follow. Deleted clauses refer to criteria for selecting Faculty, expansion of Afro-American-oriented courses in established departments...
...Pass-Fail: The question of ungraded courses (Pass-Fail and Independent Study) has not yet been determined, but a pattern similar to those in other concentrations will be followed. Since Independent Studies will naturally play a useful role in providing flexibility, students are encouraged to consider using their ungraded options for this purpose...
...April 17, at the Faculty's third emergency meeting, two black students cames to present Afro's view. The first--Jeffrey Howard '69, told the Faculty that Afro came in a spirit of cooperation, but that it insisted on a more adequate role in the governing of the Afro-American Studies department. The second--Wesley Profit '69--read the Faculty a resolution essentially the same as the one handed out two days earlier. The only differences were in the numbering system for the various sections, and in some of the phraseology: "demand" was shifted to "should be" in several places...
...spirit of the demands and the proposal by the representatives from Afro is that students must have a more central role in the establishment of the Afro-American Studies program. I do not think they have had a sufficient role. I move the Faculty go on record as endorsing this proposal...
...best passages in the book, a critique of the American fightingman. Eliot Roseater, of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater fame, shares a mental hospital ward and his favorite author with Pilgrim. Ilium, N.Y., hometown of Cat's Cradle and Player Piano, makes its third appearance in that role. And, finally, various progeny and siblings of Winston Niles Rumford, co-star of The Sirens of Titan, motorboat past Billy Pilgrim's bedroom window on his wedding night...