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...another questioner did not receive the answer he wanted to hear. Tom Reeves, a professor of political science at Roxbury Community College, walked away shaking his head after arguing with Bellotti over the candidate's support for the death penalty...
Barbara Johnson, professor of romance and comparative literature, was named to chair Harvard's beleagured Afro-American Studies Department this year. Johnson will thus join former chair Werner Sollors as the Department's only permanent faculty members. Johnson is a literary scholar, who has not been previously affiliated with the Afro-Am Department, but has taught classes on Afro-American literature...
...Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell--who is currently taking an unpaid leave of absence to protest lack of faculty diversity--said that the abrupt and uncourteous manner in which Watson was dismissed may have revealed an attempt to punish Watson for his controversial views...
...Harvard professors made national news when they reported that they had synthesized a molecule that in laboratory tests had prevented AIDS from spreading. Professor of Chemistry Stuart L. Schreiber, Professor of Pediatrics Steven J. Burakoff and Associate Professor of Medicine Robert W. Finberg say it is too soon to know the drug's potential, and warn that any testing for humans is at least a year away. Nevertheless, Burakoff said the drug "holds out the hope that it might prevent the spread of AIDS...
Meanwhile, the Harvard administration itself was taking steps to prevent discrimination against those infected with the HIV virus. In June, the Harvard professor who is slated to chair the Eighth International Conference on AIDS here in 1992 said that it will not be held here unless the federal government changes a policy which bars foreigners who have tested positive for the AIDS virus from entering this country without a special waiver...