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Interviews with a number of professors concerned with urban affairs indicate a widespread reluctance to rush into establishing an undergraduate concentration. Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, said that he doubts "the legitimacy of the field" and cautions that "it would be very easy to overemphasize...
According to Banfield, who teaches Government 14?-a survey course on the problems of the city-courses on urban problems should be part of an undergraduate education, but "should not be the main diet. I don't think that kind of thing constitutes a liberal education." he said...
Because of the multitude of problems and aspects that can be classifield under "urban affairs," any attempt to be comprehensive would inevitably fall short. In Banfield's own course a number of experts on different urban problems-including Boston City Councilman Thomas Atkins and Dr. Robert Coles, the expert on the effects of poverty on children-have agreed to lecture...
...train the student to be everything," Banfield said. "I think the fact that the division of labor occurs proves this...
Members of the Committee on Students and Community Relations, including six Faculty members who are not on the Council. are: Dunlop, chairman; Mark Ptashne, lecturer on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Edwin O. Reischaner, University Professor; (members not on the Council) Edward L. Keenan '57, lecturer on History: Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government: Lee Rainwater, professor of Sociology; Doris H. Kearns, assistant professor of Government; Myron B. Fiering '55. Gordon McKay Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics; and Paul M. Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry...