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...dispute at the Institute concerns the membership of Robert N. Bellah '48, Ford Professor of Sociology and Comparative Studies at Berkeley. Kaysen nominated Bellah for a one-year appointment at the Institute despite a 14-6 vote by the Institute's permanent faculty opposing the nomination...
...majority of the faculty last month called for an outside commission to evaluate Kaysen's leadership after he forwarded Bellah's nomination to the Institute's Board of Trustees...
...people who are opposed to my appointment have no interaction or communication with the Social Science program," Bellah said yesterday. "Both Professor Geertz [the only other Institute member in the Social Sciences] and I are products of Harvard's Social Relations Department, and we want to take a new non-disciplinarian approach at the Institute...
Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, was one of five outside scholars asked to evaluate Bellah's work. "I told the Institute that I think Bellah is a very brilliant man," he said yesterday...
Reischauer said that the Institute is experiencing "growing pains." "Bellah's work is very significant, and people not in his field can't appreciate what he is doing...