Since students could not formally offer a Faculty resolution, Stanley Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, worked with Afro. He helped the students redraft their proposal into a Faculty resolution, and he read that at the meeting:)

RESOLVED:

That all official discussion of requirements and of curriculum 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 is to be created empowered to set the temporary structure for the AAC until the full complement of faculty is present.

At that time a governing board is to be created consisting of faculty members and students, one-half from Afro, one-half from potential concentrators, to be chaired by the Chairman of the department and elected in department-wide referendum.

The faculty understands that the Afro-American Studies is to have departmental powers. By the terms of the Rosovsky Committee Report, the Afro-American Studies Committee like other departments will be able to make its own appointments and to set up criteria for determining tenure and to institute courses. The Afro-American Studies Committee is to have a budget that enables it to implement its special needs and programs.

The temporary governing board will be replaced by a permanent board through a department-wide referendum early in the academic year of 1969-1970, or as soon as possible. This governing board will be the means for inter-departmental communication as well as the policy committee of the department.

A. The powers of this committee cannot be detailed until the temporary governing board meets with the head of the department. The governing board will, however:

a. work to generate courses for the curriculum.

B. The governing board will include:

a. black students elected by black students on campus.

b. concentrators in the field elected in a department-wide referendum.

c. tenured and non-tenured faculty members.

The governing board is to be chaired by the head of the department.

(Cavell's version of the plan left out two clauses in the original Afro proposal--sections referring to a committee's power to review tenure appointments and to publish tenure hearings. Cavell said that the two clauses would be discussed at the April 22 meeting. But since he referred to them under the numbering system of the original Afro proposal--and not under the system of the revised version he had circulated among the Faculty--many professors were confused and postponed debate.

Near the end of its meeting, however, the Faculty managed to pass by acclimation a resolution by Charles Whitney, professor of Astronomy:)

"The spirit of the demands and the proposal by the representatives from Afro is that students must have a more central role in the establishment of the Afro-American Studies program. I do not think they have had a sufficient role. I move the Faculty go on record as endorsing this proposal."

(The latest official reaction to the Afro proposal came from the Corporation. In its statement last Friday, the Corporation included a paragraph alluding to black student demands,)

We are aware of the concerns of the black students as Harvard. Their special interests are now being considered by the various faculties. We share the faculties' concern and hope they will speedily find appropriate ways to meet the special interests of these students. However, we do not feel it would be appropriate for us to anticipate the actions of the faculties on these matters.

(The Faculty holds another emergency meeting Tuesday. Cavell's proposal will be on the docket, along with two others. One, by Archie C. Epps, assistant dean of the College, asks the Faculty to resolve that "new and extraordinary means be found to involve black students in the Afro-American Studies program." The other, by B. Irven DeVore, associate professor of Anthropology, suggests an interim solution of placing three students chosen by Afro on the Standing Committee, Afro representatives will probably be invited to attend Tuesday's Faculty meeting.