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Minority Leaders Question Dean's Annual Report

Criticism centered on the report's lack of support for a Third World Center and a dean for minority affairs.

Minority student leaders also challenged the report of the Afro American Studies Department's success.

"I agree with the goals of the report, but would go about doing it differently," said Anthony A. Ball, a member of the Third World Alliance. "We've got to have a Third World Center as a support structure for all students to go and express themselves," he added.

Ari Q Fitzgerald '84, a coordinator of Black student recruiting in the admissions office, criticized the report's evaluation of the Afro-American studies department, saving that while it offer a number of good courses it does not focus enough on African languages and culture.

Fitzgerald added that a dean for minority affair would be better suited to attack problems faced only by minority students.

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Separatism

There was also some disagreement with the report's assumptions about separatism.

Because approximately 98 percent of the faculty and 80 percent of the students are not of the majority separatism cannot exist, said Senior Admissions Officer David E. Evans "Where could a person go if he is separatist. It is not even near to being a realistic phenomenon."

He did, however agree with the reports rejection of the need for a dean of minority affairs. "We don't need a Captain for the Colored," he said, adding that the major draw back in recruiting minority student centers on the "small pool of minority students with adequate credentials.

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