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To the Editors of The Crimson:
I have taught in the School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University since 1979; I have never written a letter to your newspaper. But your editorial on Henry Rosovsky's accomplishments in the last 10 years really irked me; were you serious when you claimed that he has increased the number of minority tenured and non tenured faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences ??? Perhaps we mean different things by the term, "minorities." As for as I know, I was the only Black assistant professor in the School of Arts and Sciences since the termination of Professors Cudjoe, Wright and Harrington. Since I resigned as Assistant Professor (January 1983) I think that today not one assistant professor is Black! This is a drastic decline since the late '60s, and early '70s. As for as tenured Black faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences is concerned, I would only ask you to back your claim with hard data; let the readers decide if Dean Rosovsky should be given credit for an accomplishment, or a disaster. James Jennings Assistant Professor of Afre-American Studies
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