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...controversy centers around the economics department of the University's college of commerce. According to elder members of the department, Dean Howard R. Bowen and department chairman Everett E. Hagen, both of whom got their positions in the past few years, are trying to force out the conservative economists at Illinois and replace them with "New Deal pinkos...
Professor Donald S. Kemmerer, a long-standing friend of Blodgett, charges that Bowen and Hagen forced Blodgett out because he was conservative. Kemmerer points to the fact that since Hagen became chairman and Bowen, dean, two of Blodgett's main courses have been taken away from him and given to professors hired by Bowen. Moreover, texts written by Blodgett were formerly used in classes attended by 2,100 students, are now used in classes totalling...
...Bowen denied that political views had anything to do with Blodgett's leaving, and asked that a special committee investigate the situation. Such a committee was appointed, despite protests by Blodgett supporters that the matter should have been handled by the university Senate academic freedom committee...
...report will note that morale in the economics department has deteriorated badly and that many older members feel that they are being pushed out by the many young men imported by Bowen since he became dean...
...background of the case are Stoddard's efforts to build up the academic standards of Illinois. Stoddard imported Bowen to improve the college of commerce, and it was under these instructions that Bowen brought in many new men, including several who worked on New Deal agencies...