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...early as 1973 CIA operatives cautioned Washington about the vulnerability of the Shah (an act which Leaf alleges cost him his job). Furthermore, the eventual resurgence of the opposition to the Shah was predicted outside of government circles as early as 1969. At that time, Hamid Algar, U.C. Berkeley's Iran scholar, ended an analysis of the role of the Muslim clergy in Iranian politics with the prophetic statement, "When the integrity of the nation is held to be threatened by internal autocracy and foreign hegemony, protests in religious terms will continue to be voiced, and the appeals...
About 50 students have protested the offer of tenure to Lawrence W. Levine, professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley. The students maintain that Levine is not committed to teaching Afro-American studies and that he is not qualified for tenure in the department. A leaflet written by the students states that Levine is currently doing research in Jewish studies and some students have objected to what they believe is an offer to Levine to chair the department...
...studies is to disregard his history. Even if some scholars at Harvard may question his work, the search committee of top scholars and other experts call Levine one of the top ten Afro-American studies scholars in the country, and his work substantiates that label. As a professor at Berkeley since the mid-1960s, Levine has taught several Afro-American courses, contributed articles on Black studies to various historical journals and has been the principle force behind Berkeley's Black Cultural Research Project. Black scholars say that Levine's latest book, "Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought...
While it is true that Levine has not taught courses in Afro-American history in the past few years, he has taught such courses in the past. At Berkeley, moreover, Levine is tenured in the history department, not as an Afro-American studies professor. If he accepts the University's offer of tenure, he will do so knowing full well of his commitment to teaching Afro-American courses...
Schools participating in the program include the University of California at Berkeley, New York State University, Carnegie Mellon University and the business schools at the University of North Carolina and New York University...