Word: departmentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NYC Department of Personnel
The Harvard man didn't see it that way. "This university doesn't have to answer to anyone," he snorted, "except possibly the Justice Department. But certainly not to any pagan journalists."
Like most of Ec 10, I found the joke somewhat funny. Among tenured economists, it might be downright hilarious. But the joke is entirely inappropriate for an introductory course in a department that is trying to attract more female concentrators.
Feldstein surely did not intend to discourage women, but his suggestion that students use jokes about housewives and abused maids as study guides is not likely to produce a more genderbalanced department. Economics is one of the most popular majors for women at Wellesley--and people justifiably wonder why so...
"He was the most powerful candidate--as an intellectual and as a person who could bring an interesting point of view to the department," said Fine Arts Chair Neil Levine of Bryson. "He's a fabulous teacher, a dynamic person, an engaging speaker."