PATRICK MCGARVEY/YH Where Yale's computers go to die Each year, Yale gets rid of hundreds of old computers. Many are still in working order. Are they reduced to scrap metal, reused in New Haven schools, or recycled for spare parts? All of the above. Read about it in this week's online exc lusive. Don't just sit there, react. Sound off about articles in the Herald, and read what other people have to say. Listen to what you've been reading about. Visit the Planet of Sound to listen to songs from albums discussed in this week's Arts & Entertainment section. This week: The Devlins, Aphex Twin, and John Coltrane.		JOSIAH LEIGHTON/YH How to break the Blue Book barrier When students enrolled in last year's junior seminar Race, Ethnicity, and Nation: The African Diaspora expressed a desire to improve the offerings of the African studies program, Sociology Professor David Maurrasse decided to have an in-class discussion about the issues that the students wanted addressed. He noted all their concerns and, with their permission, submitted a complete list to the other faculty members of the African and African-American studies department. In response, a committee comprised of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members was created to review the major, its requirements, and its courses. The committee recommended to the African studies program that the undergraduate major be move d under the aegis of the African Studies Council rather than the African and African-American studies department. Yesterday, Department Chair Hazel Carby, Political Science Professor William Foltz, and History Professor Robert Harms had their first meeting as members of a joint subcommittee of the African and African-American studies department and the African Studi es Council. The subcommittee, which aims to devise a new set of requirements for the major and investigate the establishment of a director of undergraduate studies (DUS), plans to make its recommendations to the African and African-American studies depart ment this spring. The cover story for this week's print edition of the Yale Herald.
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