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Word: guinier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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instead of the normal selection procedure-in which an ad hoe committee reviews nominations-the column says that "black student militants had the deciding voice" in choosing Guinier...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Columnists Say Harvard Has Given In To Terror | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

...since no self-respecting black academician would accept the post." Harvard had to take Guinier, "whose only postgraduate work was in the Law School and who ran unsuccessfully for Manhattan borough president in 1949 as candidate of the Communist-dominated American Labor party...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Columnists Say Harvard Has Given In To Terror | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

...press conference yesterday, Pusey flatly denied the first charge-that Guinier was chosen in an abnormal way. The Faculty did vote last Spring to seat students on a committee looking for a chairman for the department. But the vote retained the normal system of review by an ad hoe committee, and Guinier was approved under that system...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Columnists Say Harvard Has Given In To Terror | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

Dean Ford said that Guinier's appointment "can easily be defended in terms of his qualifications for leading the new department." Guinier studied at Harvard and City College of New York as an undergraduate, and got a law degree from New York University...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Columnists Say Harvard Has Given In To Terror | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

...History professor called the Evans and Novak comment on Guinier's political background "pure and obvious red-baiting." The attack on Guinier's affiliation with the American Labor Party came almost verbatim from an article called "Harvard Hires Pink Prof." in a recent issue of the right-wing newspaper, Human Events...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Columnists Say Harvard Has Given In To Terror | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

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