Word: kenneth
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...Jews will stand up and take a stand on abortion and rally to the support of Dr. Kenneth Edelin but they will not assert themselves on the position of Israel in the world and the rights or Soviet Jewry," he said...
Harvard University's economics department has some 60 able faculty members, including two Nobel prizewinners and the ubiquitous John Kenneth Galbraith and John Dunlop, who is due to be named Secretary of Labor. This array of talent alone should make the department second to none. Apparently that is not the case. One of the Nobel laureate economics professors, Russian-born Wassily Leontief, 68, has announced that, after 44 years on the faculty, he will resign from Harvard this summer to teach at New York University. His reasons for departing: the department's curriculum is "too narrow" and theoretical...
Leontief's detractors within the department were quick to point out that he may be leaving simply because he is approaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 and because N.Y.U. offered him more money. But other economics professors, including Fellow Nobel Winner Kenneth Arrow (who almost left for Stanford last year) and Galbraith (who plans to retire this summer), agree with Leontief that the department must broaden its view of contemporary problems. Indeed, Galbraith has noted "the obsolescence of neoclassical economic theory," the foundation of the department's curriculum. Some faculty members and graduate students also insist that...
...desegregation, the board announced recently that it will no longer consider the racial balance in enrollment to determine if a school is in compliance with state integration laws. Instead, the regents will henceforth require New York schools only to make a "serious effort" to desegregate. The decision, black Regent Kenneth Clark said bluntly, was "a tragic retreat...
...that time, the Economics faculty agreed to a compromise over the recommendations presented by a curriculum committee, chaired by Kenneth J. Arrow, Conant University Professor, which had proposed the hiring of two radical instructors for this year. The faculty voted, instead, to "place first priority" on the hiring of one radical instructor for the 1975-76 academic year...