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...department's growing pains persisted last year, as a student campaign mounted protesting what some viewed as deliberate administration attempts to weaken the department. Students held a number of demonstrations and rallies for the "strengthening of the Afro-American Studies Department," culminating in a day-long boycott of classes held last May. Student protestors claimed that Harvard has dawdled in its faculty recruitment, deprived the department of adequate funding and is planning to demote it to an interdisciplinary committee without power to tenure or to determine its own curriculum...
Rosovsky denies these charges today. He notes that the University has spent approximately $3 million on Afro-Am over the last ten years, an annual expense of $300,000. "Given the department's size and student enrollments, no one could suggest this was an inadequate resource base," Rosovsky says. Both Rosovsky and Ferguson say decidedly they know of no plans to make the department a committee, and add they do not think such a change possible now. "At this time, it would be practically impossible to change the department to an interdisciplinary committee. We are not writing on a blank...
...junior faculty are reportedly even more dissatisfied. They met twice with Rosovsky last spring and "severely criticized her manner and style of dealing with them," Brutus says. Southern herself obliquely criticized some of her faculty for egging on student demonstrators this spring, saying that she thinks "students have been manipulated by some department faculty" to believe the department is weak...
...addition to Southern's disaffection and the discord within the department, the executive committee will also have to confront three traditional points of contention between Afro-Am and the administration--finding tenured professors, joint appointments and student suspicion of administrative motives...
...well as trying to solve the tenure mystery, the committee will have to face a largely hostile and suspicious group of student concentrators, who point to the University's poor performance in strengthening Afro-Am over the last decade as proof of its intent to undermine the department. The creation of an executive committee doesn't assuage these students' fears. "I don't see anyone on the committee who is a real ally of Afro-American Studies," Brutus says. "These people have a mainstream perspective," he adds. And Daniel Robinson '79, a former concentrator, says, "I am skeptical...