It is widely known that the crafty Dunlop has never had too high a regard for Guinier and it is likely that he told Guinier that the Institute had to be administered on a University wide basis so that the Afro Department's chairman would have less influence in its formation.

Despite this revelation, Guinier was able to do little to save his Department from the restructuring the review committee recommended. After refraining from public comment on the review committee's recommendations for two weeks, Guinier lashed out at the committee in mid November. While claiming that he had not read the report, he labelled the committee's members "nincompoops" in a sparsely attended speech in Harvard Hall.

The dearth of people at his speech pointed out a weakness Guinier had in his campaign--a total lack of student support. Despite the fact that the role and influence of students in the Department was in danger of being narrowed, Harvard-Radcliffe Afro, the black student organization, took no active role in opposing the review committee's recommendations.

Guinier's last hurrah came at the December Faculty meeting, where he delivered a stinging attack against the review committee's recommendations. His highly rhetorical speech was interrupted from the floor several times by adverse comments.

Walter Leonard, who served as the secretary of the review committee, called out that Guinier was "a damn liar" when the Afro Department chairman charged that the black members of the review committee had a "white perspective." The outburst by Leonard marked the first time that he had entered the public debate over the committee's report. Leonard has always tried to maintain a low profile publicly and apparently enjoys being regarded as a behind-the-scenes operator.

Guinier's speech did him little good and it was no surprise when the Faculty voted later to accept the substance of the review committee recommendations. The one big surprise in the vote was that the entire Afro-American Studies Faculty voted for the restructuring of the Department. Even Guinier's closest ally, Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro-American Studies, failed to support the Afro chairman's position.

The only significant break with the review committee's recommendations came when the Faculty Council called for the DuBois Institute to be established on a Faculty- and University-wide basis as in the case of other comparable centers.

The Faculty also rejected by a 69-66 vote a motion by Kilson to require joint concentrations. Kilson told the Faculty it was necessary for a student to get a grounding in a traditional discipline before studying Afro- Americans.

In a rare move, President Bok intervened in the debate and asked Kilson to define a concentration. Kilson later termed Bok's question "a tendentious interjection." James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, then offered the most telling objection to the motion by arguing that the Faculty had no business telling a department how to organize its curriculum.

Kilson answered by saying that he felt it was necessary to specify joint concentration because the Department was still in the growing stages, adding that he did not anticipate the Faculty taking a similar action with respect to other Departments.

Ackerman's argument was apparently persuasive, as the motion was defeated narrowly. In comparison to the 1969 vote on establishing an Afro- American Studies Department, there was little Faculty interest this year. In 1969 over 400 Faculty members turned out for the Loeb meeting. The turnout this year was below 170. Few Faculty members seemed interested in the debate and even fewer seemed to have any knowledge of the controversy despite the attention it has generated over the past two years.

Following the vote, Bok appointed a University-wide committee to draw up plans for the DuBois Institute. Surprisingly, Guinier agreed to serve on the committee along with Leonard and Patterson. The initial sessions of the committee have been fruitful, and it is possible that Guinier has buried the hatchet and agreed to forget about the acrimonious debate which surrounded the restructuring of the Department. In announcing the committee's appointment, Bok asked it to report quickly so that he could start soliciting foundation support for the Institute.

Despite leaving for Washington, Dunlop retained control of the selection of the search committee for new Department Faculty. Dunlop in April named a Faculty-wide committee which included Guinier. Guinier again agreed to participate on the committee despite the fact that he was the only representative of his Department.

With the Afro-American Studies Department reorganized, Kilson moved on to commenting adversely on some aspects of black student life at Harvard. He wrote a feature article for the April issue of the Harvard Bulleting and planned to follow it up with a second part in the May issue. However, the Bulletin editor, John T. Bethell '54, released galley proofs of the article to four black students who came back to him with seven alleged factual errors. Bethell checked out two of the allegations and found that Kilson was in error. He then decided to postpone publication of the article until the June issue so that certain facts could be rechecked.

Robin Schmidt, assistant for public affairs, directed the Harvard News Office to call The New York Times Magazine, to whom Kilson had submitted a revised and extended version of his Bulletin article, and inform its staff of the black students' objections. The black students had told Schmidt of their objections and he offered to put them in touch with The Times.