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...council came close to approving a new conflicts-of-interest statement put forth by the Committee on Research Policy (CRP) late last spring, only to decide after four meetings that the CRP proposal was vaguely worded. On the other hand, the council affirmed the CRP recommendations for broad changes in University policy, including the formation of a committee that would deal with professors with potential conflicts. The CRP also pushed for recognition of "conflicts of commitment" in addition to what Paul C. Martin, dean of the Division of Applied Sciences, calls "the old-fashioned financial conflicts of interest...
There have always been critics who said that the school was growing too much and too fast. This year, some think their suspicions have been confirmed. Long before President Bok last year ordered the Masters of Public Policy (MPP) program to absorb the GSD City and Regional Planning (CRP) program, Graham T Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School, argued that an expanded home was necessary. Now it's urgent...
Everyone agrees that the stalled construction does not signal a public policy Armageddon, but several professors, especially those dealing with the merger of the MPP and the CRP, are worried about how the school will house the students and faculty from the new program. Laurence E. Lynn, professor of Public Policy and chairman of the faculty committee hammering out details of the merger, refuses to even speculate about what will happen should the building not be finished by 1983; "I wish the building existed now. For every month delay, the strain gets worse," he says...
Concerns over the building have only exacerbated problems with combining the two programs. Bok ordered the mix because he felt the CRP program was becoming more of a public policy discipline than a design education. But the two programs differ in the emphasis they place on quantitative as opposed to qualitative analysis, and disagreements have spilled over into their attempts to develop a joint basic curriculum and admissions policy...
Students on both sides have complained about the combination. Some currently studying at the K-School think it will result in the dilution of the quality of the MPP; one CRP student said he was afraid the unique qualities of the design program would be lost. Criticizing the more mathematical stress of the current MPP, he said, "at least we remember it's people we're dealing with...