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...such an institute, but to establish an institute. He delegated to his special assistant, Walter Leonard, the responsibility for developing a prospectus for the institute, and, heedless to the clamor of students and Afro faculty for the original prospectus, the powers in Mass Hall set up the DuBois Institute. Second-class status is the mark of the Afro Department which is not consulted or notified about the establishment of a research center in Black studies. Benign neglect is the mark of a university which isolates its Black studies department from its complementary research center...

Author: By Peter Hardie and Bruce Jacobs, S | Title: On the Brink: Afro-American Studies At Harvard | 1/18/1977 | See Source »

...Soweto high school senior named Michael, who, as a known SSRC sympathizer, is on the run from the police and sleeps in a different house every night. "We know as well as they do that education is the tool of our liberation in the long run but not the second-class schooling we get under the Bantu Education Act. We must keep up the pressure to force the whites to give us the same education they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Soweto: the Students Take Over | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...arrive, the plan would eliminate free choice. Although that is an attractive goal to lose, Harvard's present housing system does not allow this goal to be attained. With pre-assignment the meaningless anguish surrounding the current choice system would be avoided. Students assigned to a House with a second-class image would enjoy their House far more than they would after a freshman year of indoctrination. Such a plan coupled with the task force's recommendations to allow transfers in sophomore year and to make sure that some balance in Houses can be maintained, might succeed in rescuing...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: One Piano Tuner | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

...Palestinians want most of all is the sense of national identity that would arise from statehood. Just as many Jews in the Diaspora were given a new sense of pride and hope by the creation of Israel; so also would the Palestinian refugees escape from the tarnish of being second-class citizens of nowhere if a state of their own were founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Palestinians: Hopes for a Homeland | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...ideas were echoed by California Publicist Sy Leon, 53, who founded a League of Non-Voters and even coauthored a book entitled None of the Above. Said Leon: "I don't vote because I don't want to force a second-class decision on my neighbors." To propagate his views, Leon has been handing out bumper stickers by the scores. One of them reads: THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS IS EVIL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those Who Stayed Away | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

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