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When the administration named its advisory board for the W.E.B. DuBois Institute last week, many people wondered why no one from the Afro-American Studies Department had been appointed to the panel that will oversee the development of Harvard's black research facility. As it turns out, the administration thought...
Walter J. Leonard, President Bok's special assistant, acknowledged this week that he had invited David Lewis, a professor at Federal City College who was a candidate for tenure in Afro, to sit on the DuBois panel. At the time of the invitation, Leonard said, he had "very good" reason...
Bok is still left with the problem of DuBois and Afro, but he said Tuesday that for now he will give top priority to raising funds for the institute. Noting that he has "never faced a year that has been so difficult for raising money," Bok said he is going...
Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro Department, is giving Bok something else to worry about. On Tuesday Guinier released a letter he sent to Bok in which he charges the administration with "glaring violations" of an earlier promise to give Afro some say in DuBois's development. Guiner's...
Because the final form of the DuBois Institute will have great consequences for Harvard's approach to Afro-American research, the issues involved in the current debate over DuBois are too important for Bok or anyone else to treat lightly. The administration's approach to appointing the Institute's advisory...