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...turned down by the Brandeis administration for what I can only believe to be political reasons," Richard A. Cloward, professor of social work at Columbia University, said yesterday. Cloward said he has always been "on the left" and is involved in the civil rights movement...
Jack Goldstein, dean of the faculty at Brandeis yesterday refused to comment on the rejection of Cloward's appointment to the Heller School of Advanced Studies and Social Welfare at Brandeis...
...Committee on Academic Freedom of the American Sociological Association is investigating Cloward's charges against Brandeis. Cloward said. He added he has received more than 200 letters favoring his position. The American Association of University Professors and the sociology faculty at Brandeis, Boston University, and other schools are giving him their support, he said...
More radical yet is the guaranteed annual income, an idea that surfaced in Edward Bellamy's 19th century novel, Looking Backward, and strikes many sociologists today as the wave of the future. Columbia Social Work Professor Richard Cloward proposes a strategy of crisis and disruption to achieve it. As Cloward sees it, welfare is a "savage and barbarous" system that strips recipients of all dignity. If millions of the poor could be shown how to claim all the benefits to which they are legally entitled, Cloward believes, they would so overload welfare rolls that Congress would have no choice...
Another probability not mentioned by Dr. Cloward was discussed thoroughly last month by Surgeons Walter Freeman and James Winston Watts of Washington, D.C. in a book on the frontal lobes (Psychosurgery; C. C. Thomas; $6). To enliven victims of deep depression and remove some of their inhibitions, Drs. Freeman and Watts cut through some fibers of the frontal lobes. They have returned a good proportion of their patients to their jobs. Like these patients wounded men who lose part of their frontal lobes (most civilized part of the brain, just behind the forehead) may lose self-restraint and manners, become...