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Committee member and Senior Lecturer on Economics Jeffrey Wolcowitz declined comment yesterday. No other committee members, including Friedman, could be reached for comment...
...committee, led by Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman, voted down the proposal Tuesday, saying that while the course was viable in itself, it was not an appropriate replacement for a semester...
...difference. University President Lawrence H. Summers had blithely asserted on Monday night at a Kirkland House study break that the integrity of shopping period would be unaffected by the introduction of preregistration. But, following the speeches—including that of Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman ’66 who charged that “the proposal before us purports to preserve flexibility, but there will be a very clear reduction of shopping period to a vestigial remnant of what our students now enjoy”—Summers spoke of the need...
...remarks on Tuesday, Friedman was sympathetic to the administration’s desire to get rid of the logistical problems of shopping period, but he resolutely defended the need to maintain student flexibility. “Just like Iraq, this seems like a situation where nobody wants this to happen, but we discuss it as if it were inevitable,” he said. But by speaking out, he and his nine colleagues helped to make the passage of this proposal anything but certain. Now the academic community as a whole must rally behind these 10 courageous professors...
...Friedman then went on to compare the forum to the discussions of Iraq...