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They will succeed Arthur A. Maass, professor of Government; George A. Miller, professor of Psychology; and David C. Mcclelland, professor of Psychology, who heads the Soc Rel department...
David Gordon's comments, reported in the same story, avoid humility like the plague. Anyone who calls the lecture system "antediluvian" has obviously not listened to Fainsod or Maass or Friedrich or Banfield or Kissingers in the Government Department. His suggestion that students should get credit for their own seminars, with or without Faculty supervision, may be an excellent way to encourage bull sessions (as if they needed encouragement), but it is also overweeningly pretentious and not likely to produce much serious scholarship...
...name "political thought and behavior" was chosen for the general area of political theory, Maass said, to indicate that the field covers more than the history of theory...
Concern within the department over the relation of theory to practical politics is not limited to terminology. Maass said yesterday that the special exam (senior concentrators take two sets of generals--one in their specialized area, and one in the other fields) is being rewritten to place increased emphasis on the practical application of theory. This change is also effective...
...division is one of several HPC recommendations on which the department has acted since last spring. Still under faculty study, Maass said, is the weighting of thesis grades relative to generals, and the structure of sophomore tutorial. A decision is expected soon