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...purpose, that fact figures in the topics they choose for their forums. Upcoming lectures in the series include Francis Fox Piven on Blacks in electoral politics, Noam Chomsky on human rights and U.S. foreign policy, Jonathan King on the politics of biotechnology, and the Rev. Steven short and Alvin Poussaint on the imposition of American cultural on Black male-female relationships...
According to Dr. Alvin Poussaint, associate dean for student affairs at the Med School, minorities comprise less than 3 per cent of the medical faculties in the United States, and Harvard's record is not much better than the national average. The scarcity can not easily be attributed to any single outstanding problem and seems instead to be the result of a number of contributing factors...
...biggest factors that tends to keep minorities away from academic careers seems to be a prevailing opinion that minorities should steer toward primary (treatment-oriented) medicine. Traditionally, minority students have felt pressured to return to their communities and help their people, Poussaint said, adding that medical faculties have therefore not generally considered them prospective future faculty...
...Poussaint also said the economic lure of private practice often discourages minorities from seeking faculty positions. "Minority students usually incur large debts through the course of their education--it is a lot easier to pay these off through a practice...
...Wednesday night rally which featured State Rep. Melvin R. King, Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, associate professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, and Winston Kendall, Ezera's attorney, attracted more than 70 people from the Harvard community. Ezera attributed his success to the support from University students...