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...only Faculty member to actually speak against this motion - although it received clearly more "Nays" than any of the other points - was Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, who was also the one dissenting voice on the Faculty Council last week...
...first motion says we are under an obligation to increase the number of women," Gleason said, "a fine thought, although I am not quite sure why we endorsed the obligation.... I basically endorse the goal, although not the formal statement...
Although Handlin and other objectors to the resolutions-including Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History and Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy-denied yesterday any organized opposition, supporters expressed on and off-the-record paranoia. "It seems all the opposition to the idea of standing committee comes not just from the lunatic right, but from the sensible right," one Faculty member said...
...Gleason, a known opponent of the legislation as it stands, also said that he knows of no counter-resolutions. "There's very little in the report that represents any real change." he said. "As the dean says, there's hardly anything that I can't do myself...
Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and member of both the task force and the original standing committee the Faculty set up in 1961, said he thought the new task force was "a bit more professional" than the older committee...