Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Josephine Wright and Harrington Benjamin, assistant professors of Afro-American Studies, declined to comment on Southern's resignation...
...department now has one and a half tenured professors--Southern and Ewart Guinier '33, who is semi-retired. The lack of senior faculty in Afro-Am drew harsh criticism last spring, as students held a series of demonstrations charging Harvard--and Rosovsky in particular--with failing to search aggressively for tenured faculty, depriving the department of funding and planning to demote it to an interdisciplinary committee...
Student concentrators and junior faculty members in the department say they are skeptical about the committee members' commitment to Afro-American Studies. They worry about losing control over the focus and direction of Afro-American Studies, and note that only one member of the committee--Southern--is affiliated with the department. Concentrators also fear that the committee will underestimate African studies...
...administration capitulated. But ten years later; with a tightened economy and a more sedate student body, the University has met student demands of a different sort with letters and reports, but no action. Frustrated by Harvard's success at defusing the potentially explosive South African investment issue, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) is setting its sights beyond Harvard Yard...
...chief of Mental Health Services (MHS) at the University Health Services (UHS), prides himself on his awareness of the little things that go on around the college. "Students don't usually think much about it," the 20 year Harvard veteran tells you in what remains of a childhood Southern drawl, "but over here, we know the difference between Eliot and Winthrop House." Why? "Because we have...