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...Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government, said he was "delighted" with Shapiro's appointment. "He's clearly the best man available...
...Finally, and most important, Maass notes that demands on Faculty independence have until recently been minimal. "When we signed up to be members of the Faculty we agreed to abide by the common rules set up to administer the college-practical things like dates for reporting grades and finals. We did not agree to abide by majority rule on political issues-racism, militarism, or the Vietnam War. It came completely out of the blue when we were asked to debate these things on the floor of the Faculty," he said...
...tore ourselves to bits over whether it might be necessary to interfere with that," Maass said. Conservatives were being forced to set priorities-departmental autonomy versus "academic excellence" -and the conflict did not help Faculty member relations...
...conservative and they're not liberal," Maass strongly protested last June. "We have lots of 'liberals' in our group, and they have many radicals. I would like to think of us as responsible and some of them as irresponsible. That's not entirely true, but it's as fair as them calling us conservatives. The best thing is to just call the caucuses the blues and the whites...
Although the conservatives were the first to become a caucus, Maass explained that their objective was always to dissolve the caucus as soon as possible, and de-politicize the University...