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The Review Committee report called for major changes in the department's administration and structure. Specifically, the report, released two weeks ago, urged that the Faculty provide joint concentrators between Afro-American Studies and other established disciplines. Similarly, the report called on the Faculty to use joint appointments between Afro...
These recommendations would end Guinier's control of the department. The executive committee never acts independently of the chairman and is his puppet cabinet. By taking control of the DuBois Institute and Faculty appointments out of its hands, the Review Committee was trying to end Guinier's domination.
IN A SPEECH AT CORNELL last Saturday and again on Tuesday night in Harvard Hall. Guinier said that the Administration failed to consult him and the department's executive committee while initiating the review procedure. The Faculty legislation creating the Afro-American Studies Department and mandating a review in 1971...
The Review Committee also made a number of other suggestions which the Afro-American Studies Department has opposed. The Committee urged that a graduate program be deferred until the Department is more established at Harvard, and that the chairmanship be rotated by the end of 1972-1973. The report also...
For the last three years, Guinier has opposed the appointment of a University-wide committee to administer the DuBois Institute. He has stated repeatedly that any effort to set up a University-wide committee violates the spirit of the Faculty legislation which created the Department. That legislation gave the executive...