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Dean Kilbridge and other GSD officials, including John F. Kain, chairman of the City and Regional Planning Department, refused yesterday to comment on the report. Several said they would not speak because the Board of Overseers had asked them not to discuss reports of the visiting committee...
...Kain has been the source of controversy since he moved into the Planning Department chairman's seat from the Economics Department, where he still holds a full professorship. The department has grown markedly in the last two years, and it now holds over 200 students as does the Architecture Department. There are about 600 students in the entire school...
...November 1975 first-year students in the department protested several of Kain's policies, including what they called an overemphasis on quantitative methods and slighting of fields such as physical design...
They also questioned Kain's preference for hiring less experienced younger faculty and giving them extensive sabbaticals to gain experience, rather than hiring practicing, experienced professionals...
...Chairman Kain, "although well-known as an economist and analyst of selected urban systems, is neither a city planner nor a regional planner...