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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither Ferguson nor other committee members believe these problems of tenure and possible confrontation to be insurmountable. Committee members say that they believe in the legitimacy and intellectual excitement of Afro-American Studies, and want to make sure other Harvard community members think so, too. Although efforts to help Afro-Am have a long history of failure, they remain confident. "This really is a last ditch effort--if this doesn't work, nothing will," Patterson says. Rosovsky and the rest of the committee are laying cautious odds that it will, but this year should prove a crucial test of that...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: A Last-Ditch Effort for Afro-Am | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

Cantor and a University-wide personnel staff of about 75 people are in charge of making sure the non-Faculty positions run smoothly. To that end, the personnel representatives from each school meet twice a month to discuss University policy, recruitment strategies and to share tips, Wickenden says. "And there is a regular informal flow of complaint memos, bitches, whatever goes on throughout the different schools," Cantor says. To reduce confusion, the personnel office distributed a thick memo detailing all personnel rules to every department...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Nine to Five in Harvard's Halls | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...trouble stems from the growing resistance of disease-causing microbes to antibiotics. By the 1970s, the trend had grown to alarming proportions. Penicillin, once a sure cure for most forms of venereal disease, in more and more cases turned out to be ineffective. When doctors tried alternative therapies, they discovered that some bacteria had resistance to several drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drugged Cows | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

E.D.T.) Scheduled behind Laverne & Shirley, this Soap spin-off is one of the season's few sure hits. Unfortunately, Writer Susan Harris has not capitalized on her secure ratings position by creating a daring and witty show. Benson is another sitcom dedicated to the tedious proposition that servants and children are smarter than employers or parents. In this case the employer is a moronic Governor (James Noble) who hires black Butler Benson (Robert Guillaume) to run his household and, by inference, his unidentified Eastern state. Except for Benson and the Governor's unspeakably precocious subteen daughter (Missy Gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: 1 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...impressed by the profundity of a shrug ("So it goes") have probably found the guru they deserve. At the same time, Vonnegut is one of the few truly original and distinctive stylists to emerge in the past 20 years. The clarity and apparent simplicity of his prose are sure signs of the craft that went into making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Money Matters | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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