Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Afro-American Studies Department have been appointed, they will be joined by four students to form an executive committee charged with curriculum development and course requirements. The faculty resolution explicitly emphasized the need for an experimental approach in this attempt to develop an important and unique program in a field in which most present members of the faculty have little experience...
...deal wit Afro-American Studies spoke for the motion. It was pointed out that the crisis of confidence had arisen in good part because, by a tragic mistake, the committee had forgotten to keep the bargain to consult the black students before the announcement of the Afro-American Program courses for next year went to press...
Moreover, the motion as passed provides that after two years the whole faculty "will review all aspects of the program and make recommendations as to the membership, operating rules, and responsibilities of the permanent Executive Committee." This amendment was accepted without demurrer by the representatives of the black students who had been invited to be present at the faculty meeting...
...with the statement that "the faculty under pressure from black students broke with one of the basic traditional principles." Rather, it seems to us that we have made considerable progress on a journey on which we had already embarked before the events of April 9 and 10. The new program for our black students may well become a model, of relevance both the scholarship in a new field and to the peaceful evolution of democratic institutions in the United States...
...some people have no respect for tradition, and the rejuvenated athletic department at Penn seems to contain a few such individuals. Going to the University of Pennsylvania for the athletic program used to be like going to Wool-worth's to buy a suit. But some of the more ambitious persons connected with Penn went out to rustle up some jocks, and the shortest of chats with some of the Quaker's heavyweight oarsmen, last Saturday at Worcester makes it quite clear that they came up with a pretty rare and rugged species. After a while, even the most docile...