Word: supporting
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...were organized in much shorter time, as nostalgia for the tenth anniversary of the student strike of '69 provided impetus to student concern over the department's problems. Representatives from the Black Student Association (BSA), the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, and several other student groups formed a committee in support of the Afro-American Studies Department in early April. The committee first tried to elicit student support for the department by distributing petitions to the Houses, focusing on two of the department's perennial problems: tenured faculty and funding...
While student supporters of the department gained publicity through their petitions, President Bok arranged with the Student Assembly for an open discussion on University issues. On the topic of Afro-American Studies, Bok said he has been unable to attract well-qualified candidates for tenured positions because the department suffers from a reputation for controversy. Mark Smith '72, the SASC spokesman at the Kennedy School of Government opening in the fall of 1978, responded to Bok at that meeting that the University's consistent lack of support for the department has made it an "anathema" to many qualified professors...
Despite the closeness of the date, members of the coalition thought the number of students reached through its member groups would be large enough to give the movement momentum. Many students felt torn in supporting the boycott, however, because they felt the issues were only loosely related in that they both concerned blacks. Students opposed to the boycott also said they believed boycotting would be a statement of support for both issues, although some students either did not support one of the issues, or felt less strongly about one than another. "Sure, I'm for divestiture...
Another student says she did not like the idea of an issue she knew little about "being tacked on the tail end of one I obviously support: divestiture...
Koblitz said that many members of the Class of '69 support the ad hoc committee's efforts in favor of divestiture...