Afro Members To Attend Faculty Meeting Tuesday

The Association of African and Afro-American Students (Afro) will meet today to select five student observers for Tuesday's Faculty meeting on the Rosovsky report.

Dean Ford last week invited Afro and the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students to choose up to five students to attend the meeting. After the Feb. 4 Faculty meeting on ROTC--which nine specially-invited students attended--Tuesday meeting will be the second "open" Faculty meeting in Harvard's history.

The meeting, to be held in the Loeb Drama Center, will also consider whether to cut off scholarships to students on probation for the Dec. 12 Paine Hall demonstration.

Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economics and chairman of the special committee that investigated Afro-American studies last Fall, will present three resolutions asking for:

* the creation of a standing committee on Afro-American studies, to develop a degree program for students starting with the class of 1972;

* the creation of a standing committee on African studies, to increase course offerings in the field;

* approval "in principle" for the other recommendations in the Rosovsky committee's report.

The Committee on Educational Policy (CEP) approved the first two proposals at its meeting on Jan. 15, before the official release of the complete Rosovsky report. At the same meeting, the CEP also endorsed at least one of the steps--creation of a cultural center for black students--that will be covered by the broad third resolution at Tuesday's Faculty meeting.

Some of the other specific recommendations included in the third resolution are:

* hiring ten Faculty members in Afro-American studies by next Fall;

* creating a six-member search committee--half student and half Faculty--to choose the ten new Faculty members;

* recruiting black graduate students;

* re-evaluating the effect of Harvard's hiring, investment, and rent policies on the black community.

The other major item on Tuesday's docket is a resolution asking the Faculty to "declare explicitly its intention not to have scholarships cut due to disciplinary action taken as a result of the Paine Hall demonstration" on Dec. 12.

Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government and a member of the Student Faculty Advisory Council (SFAC), will present the motion, which the SFAC passed on Jan. 16. Some 57 Harvard students were placed on probation after the Paine Hall demonstration, but the exact number of those who are on scholarship has not been officially announced.

In the most recent similar case, the Faculty voted in November, 1967, not to cut off scholarship funds for those punished for the October Dow demonstration.

At Tuesday's meeting, President Pusey will probably announce the nine members of a special committee he has chosen to investigate the way the Faculty makes its decisions. At its Jan. 21 meeting, the Faculty passed a resolution asking Pusey to appoint a committee to re-examine its "structure, procedures, and decision-making processes", including "the ways in which students might participate in reaching decisions."

Last week, Pusey named Merle Fainsod, Director of the University Library, to chair the committee but postponed announcing other members until this week