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Afro proposed to the Faculty that a governing board for Afro-American Studies be established from among the Faculty and students, with half the student representation coming from Afro itself, and half from concentrators in the proposed department. It also demanded that the committee have power over the department's tenure decisions, and the authority to draw up courses for the department...
...raised against the Faculty vote: that it was born of the logic of fear. As Rosovsky's reference to Munich implied, many on the Faculty and around the country were appalled by what they saw as the capitulation of the nation's most prestigious university to the demands of students protesters--demands enforced by what some viewed as an atmosphere of psychological intimidation. The charge of capitulation inspired much heated debate: an associate professor at the University of Texas went so far as to ban from his classes all books written by Harvard professors, charging that the Faculty here...
Nevertheless, the department had come into existence, its creation directly attributable to student activism...
...trustees, however, voted no to sell $6 million in common stock in companies active in South Africa, a demand of the South African Support Committee, a B.U. student group. B.U. has a total portfolio worth approximately $78 million...
...contributing only to the Steven Biko Fund. Giving money to the University would show support for the amorality of President Bok's March 9 letter to the Harvard community, for the obfuscation of the Corporation in naming the Engelhard Library, and for the University's consistent disregard of student opinion in almost every major issue from South African investments to the Core Curriculum...