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THIRTEEN YEARS ago plaintiffs brought suit in Federal District Court to integrate the Louisiana public schools. The main argument of the defense attorneys and the superintendent of public instruction was that "white teachers could not understand the Nigra mind" and therefore would not be able to teach them effectively in integrated classrooms. The defense quoted heavily from the theories of white intellectual supremacy as expounded by Henry Garrett and Virginia Shuie...
Certainly, it is a serious matter when a department chairman tells one of his Faculty members that he cannot teach a course anymore without an adequate explanation for such a decision. The freedom of Faculty members to teach what they want within Faculty regulations is obviously an important principle for any university to preserve...
...EXAMPLE, Brown asks why the sections are not headed strictly by Soc Rel graduate students. But what Soc Rel grad student, in a department that does not offer courses on radical theories of social change, is "qualified" to teach such a course--except through his extracurricular contacts? The section men of Soc Rel 149 are eminently qualified to teach the material they are teaching--who can teach about modern Cuba better than a student who has been there? Who can teach about the Cultural Revolution in China better than a man who spent two years in China in the midst...
...Roger Brown thinks someone is unqualified to teach a section, he should be specific about it. If there have been irregularities in grading, he should say what they are. Few members of the Soc Rel Department know the first thing about what happens in the courses. They should visit them before they make this terribly important decision on Tuesday...
...After serious efforts to find Soc Rel graduate students to teach the courses, we were unable to find the large number of people familiar with radical ideas that we needed," the statement says. "The lack of money for salaries made it even more difficult to find Soc Rel students to give the course...