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The first hint of screened information was suggested by the discrepancy between the Department's official explanations for denying tenure to radical economist Samuel S. Bowles and the minutes of the Department's closed meeting at which the decision was made.
Officially, Bowles was denied tenure because his academic work was simply not up to snuff. Not up to the snuff required by the three faculty members who do consulting work for Data Resources, Inc., a consulting firm; not up to the snuff required by Richard E. Caves, Stone Professor of...
UNOFFICIALLY, THE major input that resulted in the Department's decision not to rehire Bowles, was faculty members' fears that Bowles would upset the apple cart of administrative policy.
Administrative sources indicated yesterday that student evaluation was a significant factor in Bowles's appointment.
Bowles, currently on leave from Harvard, will finish his last year as an associate professor here next year and will assume the tenured professorship at UMass in September 1974. Gintis will fulfill one year of his appointment as an assistant professor of Economics at Harvard next year and will begin...