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AS THEY WORK on plans for the proposed W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, members of the DuBois Advisory Board should remain flexible and open to the suggestions of many groups at Harvard and in the community. Instead, Andrew F. Brimmer, chairman of the board, has issued a hastily...
One of the students' major proposals is that the DuBois Institute should have ties to the black community, both through seminars and colloquia open to the public and through socially relevant, research projects. In flatly rejecting this concept. Brimmer and the advisory board are accepting an outmoded Harvard ideal of...
It is unpractical and wrong to structure the DuBois Institute around this outmoded concept of academia. While there is an important need for scholarly work in Afro-American Studies, the Institute should be open to researchers who will not isolate themselves from the current social and political issues affected by...
The student coalition's proposal for strong ties between the DuBois Institute and the Afro-American Studies Department is also both more practical and more likely to promote quality research than the advisory board's plan.
While members of the board took a proper first step in saying that representatives from the Afro Department should be appointed to the advisory board, their continued insistence that the DuBois Institute, as a graduate research institute, should have no ties to the undergraduate department is unrealistic. The students are...