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...What a nice place you have here," Nathan I. Huggins, newly appointed chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, said yesterday on entering the Afro-Am department building for the first time...
...Afro-American Studies Department received a shot in the arm this week when Nathan I. Huggins, professor of history at Columbia University, accepted the W.E.B. DuBois Professorship of Afro-American Studies and History, the chairmanship of the Afro-Am Department, and the directorship of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, a center for studying problems facing Afro-Americans...
...letter to The Crimson (April 9, 1980), Nathan Berkovitz levels the all-too-familiar criticism that Blacks are "over-reaction," implicitly, wildly and irrationally, to conditions on this campus and in the community at large. Berkovitz cites four instances in an attempt to back up his claims; each one reveals, however, not Black overreaction, but Berkovitz's insensitivity to racial injustice...
...case not immediately dismissed? Why was this woman not even present at the arraignment to identify the accused? Why do our courts occupy time with such ludicrous cases? Perhaps race, after all, has something to do with this phenomenon. Certainly everyone who was in court that day (Nathan Berkovitz, incidentally, was not) to support Emeka left with the feeling that racism had thoroughly infiltrated the judicial system. Emeka was acquitted, yes; but how many Blacks, who do not go to Harvard, who cannot pack the courtroom, who cannot obtain prestigious character witnesses, who cannot afford a good lawyer, land...
...Becoming a college president today," The Crimson editorialized as Derek Bok took his first tentative steps in Massachusetts Hall, "is like signing on to administer the Munich pact in 1939." If the resignation of Nathan M. Pusey '28 had dulled the volume of protest, it had done little to get at the underlying conflicts. Harvard, as Bok told the Corporation fellows who first approached him about the job, needed something more than a man who could deal with the "problems of the moment." "Even if we happen to have weathered the physical disorders," the new president said in his first...