Word: womacks
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History Department Chairman John Womack Jr. '59 yesterday described as "sorrowful" leaflets attacking him which were distributed by the Harvard Republican Club last weekend...
...interview, Womack also refuted the leaflets' charge that he "organized and led a student demonstration against American intervention in Grenada...
...Womack says universities tend to emphasize methods of analysis and quantification rather than the fields in which they are applied. He also blames the lack of qualified professors and teaching assistants on graduate schools accepting fewer students who have concentrated in one specific area...
...which professors say has hampered faculty recruiting. "The University has the responsibility of appointing the wisest, most brilliant and most productive teaching scholars it can find, and if all of them are off in one corner or another, it makes the job more difficult," says History Department Chairman John Womack Jr. '59, a Latin America specialist...
...enough courses within the individual departments to give a complete survey of Latin America and continue to call for an interdisciplinary concentration. "I'd be majoring in Latin American history if there were enough courses to take. Unfortunately, the only survey course on Latin America is taught only by Womack," says Francis X. Rocca '85. Womack is a Marxist and announced at the first meeting of History 1760 this year that he would teach the course from that perspective. "There should really be a more evenhanded treatment of the subject," says Rocca...