2. Also, students must take two half-courses from the list described in A2 above.

(After seeing the new Afro-American Studies plan, Afro took a new stance. It said that the original proposal was clear evidence that the Standing Committee was not in close enough touch with black students. Pointing out that the impetus of the Rosovsky Report had come from students and that the report endorsed the concept of student paricipation, Afro called for a restructuring of the Afro-American Studies department. When Faculty members entered their special meeting on April 15, they received copies of the following proposal from Afro:)

We would like to preface our proposal on the future form of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Committee with a sort clarification of our motivations and our goals. We make this presentation to you, the Harvard faculty, the only decision making group that has retained its credibility in this time of crisis. We wish to make it understood that we are presenting to you today the foremost of many interests we hold, and that satisfactory resolution of this question is but a step in the ongoing process of resolving all the issues we, and others, are raising.

This proposal is a direct reaction to the April 7 report of the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies it is a reaction to its contents and to the present mechanism by which such decisions ore made. By so blatantly violating the spirit of the Rosovsky Report, the Standing Committee has forced us to re-evaluate, to seek not only to correct the mistake that has been made, but to try to insure that such mistakes are not made in the future.

We ask that you accept this propocal in the same spirit that we present it, as a positive and justified effort to provide ourselves with a vehicle for the presentation of our views and criticisms before such mistakes are made and not, as is now the case, only after.

It has been more than one year since the Ad-Hoc Committee of Black Students at Harvard and Radcliffe began negotiations with the administration concerning Afro-American Studies. On April 7, 1969, a meeting for potential concentrators in the field was held. At this meeting, a proposal by the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies was disclosed. This communique was a description of the field of concentration for next year. It has since been "rumored" that a change in the proposal of the Standing Committee has occurred. There has been no official communication with any black students concerning this change. This flagrant disregard for black student opinion as continued. We demand an end to this disregard.

The April 7 communique is unacceptable. The proposed format does nothing but add independent studies to the already-existing majors at this university. Further, the communique presupposes tat Afro-American Studies is less than a legitimate and valid intellectual endeavor. We reject this notion; Afro-American Studies needs no support from so-called "allied" fields.

This communique has been described as "temporary" by several members of the Standing Committee. The real truth is that the major proposed by the communique is dangerous: those members of the class of '72 will be trapped until they graduate by a major which requires a double work load. This presents anything but a "temporary" problem for these students.

Finally, this communique presents a most serious breech of promise with regards to the powers of the department head who is to be hired by the search committee. He has to determine the structure and requirements for concentrators in Afro-American Studies. The members of the Standing Committee, wo by their admission have no expertise in Afro-American Studies, had no right to determine a course of study without the aid of the incoming department head. Since the university and its administrators have proved their inability to function without out direction and control in the matter of Afro-American Studies, we deem it not only necessary, but logical and just to enter into the direction of a major which drastically affects our lives.

We demand that all official discussion of requirements and curriculum for concentrators be suspended pending the selection of faculty for Afro-American Studies. After the first two members of the faculty are selected, a temporary steering committee must be created, empowered to set temporary structure for the AAC, until the full complement of faculty is present, at which time the governing board be creating consisting of faculty members and students, one-half from Afro, one-half from potential concentrators.

Further, we demand that the faculty accept and endorse the following description of the Afro-American Studies major at Harvard.

1. The Afro-American Studies major will embody an inter-disciplinary approach.

A. The committee will generate its own courses.

B. The committee is responsible to establish its own curriculum standards and course requirements.

C. The committee will have enough flexibility in its structure to allow courses that are radical both in subject matter and approach.