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...SCAAS is a sub-committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (HRBSA), and is chaired by Peter Hardy. It was the SCAAS that organized the forum. The student committee's reasons for presenting the forum were two fold: first, to commemorate Malcolm X, and second, to highlight the similarities between the struggles which Malcolm confronted and those which confront Third World students, with a special emphasis on a particular fight here at Harvard--that of the Afro-American Studies Department...
...people who are gravitating to his power. "He has excellent organizational talents," says Strauss, "and tremendous strengths in his feel for people and his political instincts, but he is much weaker in administration." Critics contend that this is showing up in his handling of appointments. Half of the sub-Cabinet-level posts have still not been filled, a problem of increasing concern. Cabinet officers have to spend extra hours testifying before congressional committees since there are few subordinates to go to the Hill. Complains Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland: "I'm the only one in the department who can sign...
...legal restrictions: 1) strict libel laws that allow even notorious public figures to win damages for disclosures that in the U.S. would not be considered actionable; 2) stringent contempt-of-court rules under which a journalist can be jailed for any original reporting about a matter that is sub judice, that is, before a court; 3) the principle of "confidence," which protects from disclosure industrial secrets and other private information that would be considered fair game in the U.S.; and 4) the so-called D (for defense) notices, which are issued by the government as advance warnings that stories about...
...graduate students and one worker representative sit on that university's priorities subcommittee. The six-year-old, 16-member group makes recommendations on student fees, teaching, salaries, and departmental expenditure levels to university officers, who have never altered the subcommittee's recommendations. Although students form a minority of the sub-committee, they have full access to financial data, and administrators are usually willing to compromise on tuition hikes and cutbacks...
...does not have a single department or program concerned with the teachings of African languages and literatures. Practically every one of the approximately two dozen languages of Europe is part of the normal curriculum of the University; yet not a single one of the indigenous languages of sub-Saharan Africa (estimated to number anywhere from 200 to 1200) is taught as a serious and separate course. Harvard also has two other departments (Comparative Literature and Linguistics) and a related program (Ukranian) whose primary concern is the study of European languages and/or literatures--not to mention the Department of English...