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BESIDES BEING an uncalled-for personal slight, President Bok's decision not to name Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, to the advisory board of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research is representative of an unreasonable and small-minded attitude toward dissent in the...
The major point of contention between Guinier and the administration is the relationship between DuBois and the Afro Department. The administration's plan for the research facility calls for no formal connection between the two. Guinier's apparent sin is that he argued against the administration's position and voiced...
The arguments for a formal relationship between Afro and the DuBois Institute are persuasive, and the ongoing debate on the matter continues to be an important one. Bok's failure to appoint Guinier to the Committee that will oversee DuBois's development is an official attempt to stifle that debate...
Bok's treatment of Guinier in this matter would seem to bear proof of Guinier's claim that the administration continues to treat the Afro Department as a "second-class citizen." It is inconceivable that Bok would fail to appoint any History Department members to the board of a new...
The appointments did not comply with a recommendation made last December by the Committee to Establish the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, calling for a board "drawn from the Harvard faculty, from scholars in the field of Afro-American studies and from the Black American community."