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...question-debated at last Tuesday's special Faculty meeting-of how the Faculty Council proposed by the Fainsod Committee should be selected has aroused sharp disagreement between the liberal and conservative caucuses of the Faculty...
Three members of the conservative caucus's steering committee sent a letter to 250 of their more conservative colleagues before the meeting, urging that the recommendations of the Fainsod Committee be adopted intact. These recommendations included a suggestion that a Faculty Council be selected by a combination of appointive and elective procedures...
...letter supporting the Fainsod report was signed by three professors- Robert L. Wolff 36, Coolidge Professor of History and chairman of the conservative caucus; Arthur A. Maass, professor of Government; and Richard J. Hermstein, professor of Psychology. All three are members of the conservative caucus's steering committee...
...large," the letter stated, "we regard the recommendations of the Fainsod Committee... as the best compromise likely to be achieved." It added, "We would oppose specific amendments, of a kind we foresee as likely, designed to make the future Faculty Council wholly elective...
...Center was created solely as a result of a 1956 report of a University-wide faculty committee which included Dean Bundy and Professors Rupert Emerson, Merle Fainsod, Lincoln Gordon, Milton Katz, William Langer and Edward Mason. No government agency had any part whatever in initiating, organizing, or financing the formation of the Center...