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Unfortunately, Marglin believes that alternative approaches to economics will remain scarce at Harvard. The tiny liberal caucus in the Economics Department, which sided with him in many of the battles over his departed fellow-radicals, is dwindling, Galbraith will be making movies for BBC next year, and Leontief, disgusted with the department, has announced his intentions to "vote with my feet" and is leaving for New York University. Albert O. Hirschman went to Princeton last year. Only Kenneth Arrow remains. With these resignations, Harvard has lost much of the variety in its economic thought...
...joining the radicals in a coalition calling for President Kirk's resignation." On the eve of the Harvard occupation, SDS itself defeated a motion calling for immediate seizure of a building each of the three times it was proposed. But the next day, the Maoist Worker. Student Alliance caucus of SDS moved in. It was only President Pusey's order for outside police to evacuate the building that "radicalized" other students, and made a strike possible. Surveys show that 82 per cent of Harvard students opposed the sit-in but 78 per cent rejected the calling of police, and that...
Lipset, a member of the Faculty's conservative caucus (in the essay he refers to it as the moderate caucus), obviously was distressed by the turn University politics took in the sixties and equally discouraged by Harvard's institutional response to the challenge of student radicalism. The people who controlled Harvard--liberal administrators and faculty--failed, in Lipset's eyes, to appreciate the historical context and the historical implications of the "attack on academic freedom." In his essay, Lipset sets out to draw the appropriate lessons and to inform the University of its higher interests...
When the nomination quota is high, a candidate needs substantial organized (that is, caucus-related) support to appear on the council ballot; with only five nominations needed, a candidate doesn't need caucus backing...
Noble, a Democrat, helped form the women's caucus in the Massachusetts State Legislature this year. She stressed the need to form coalitions with other women and minorities to develop a unified set of priorities...