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...group of about 100 students calling themselves the "Tenure Alan Gummerson" committee first occupied the economics department offices in late March to protest the department's refusal to reverse its decision, then began the current sit-in last Wednesday...
During yesterday's negotiations, students apparently abandoned their demand of tenure for Gummerson and centered their demands on the establishment of Marxist instruction at Clark...
John C. Blydenburgh, chairman of the Government Department and a member of the ad hoc faculty panel, said yesterday that a resolution to tenure Gummerson would violate the "basic norms of the university," by threatening academic freedom...
...Gummerson, who said that he had "changed horses in midstream" after coming to Clark six years ago by switching his focus to Marxist economics, said yesterday that he would continue his own demand for tenure...
Roger Van Tassel, chairman of the Economics Department, last year wrote that Gummerson's interests were "peripheral" to the "thrust" of the department, but he also cited alleged deficiencies in Gummerson's teaching and writing as grounds for the tenure decision...