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...most vocal of Guinier's opponents is Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government. Earlier this month Kilson called Guinier "an intellectual and academic disgrace". "Guinier," Kilson added, "is not a scholar at the Harvard level." Another of Guinier's detractors is Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology Once a member of the Afro faculty, Patterson left the Department in disagreement with the way it was run. In a memo to the Review Committee, Patterson wrote that Guinier "lacks the academic, administrative, and personal qualities for the job of chairman. Not having an academic or intellectual background, he is extremely insecure...
Kilson and Guinier agree that blacks who come to Harvard are generally not as well prepared academically as their white counterparts. As a result, black students' academic needs often differ from those of whites. Kilson and Patterson say Harvard's Afro program should not sacrifice traditional Harvard academic standards to meet black students' special needs. Guinier's having done so, they claim, has made Afro a poor sister to the other departments...
Both Kilson and Patterson have suggested various plans to improve the academic quality of the Afro. Each believes that the first step necessary is improving the Department's faculty. Kilson and Patterson agree that in order to attract top scholars joint appointments must be created. To attract new faculty to Afro they must also be given positions in Harvard's older and more stable departments. This should be done, said Kilson, "even at the risk of having white faces in the [Afro] Department...
Kilson and Patterson also agree that the students' power to vote on faculty appointments must be taken away. The Review Committee supported this position in its October 1972 report...
...they recognize the newsprint shortage as a fact of future life, some newspapermen are concluding that economizing on paper may have its beneficial side. St. Petersburg Times Editor Eugene Patterson has cut back news columns by 35% and told staffers to think up ways in which stories can be fully told in less space. Says Patterson: "It's a good time to look at the paper and clean out some of the deadwood we've been printing, if that's what...