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...Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics, will teach Economics 1012a and 1012b, "Modern Capitalism," next fall and spring in succession, and will add a new spring-term extension to his Economics 1201a--Economics 1201b, "Topics in the Political Economy of Socialism...
...because of its "political activities"--"we found that the Friends Service Committee was spending 13 per cent of its time propagandizing for world peace," the Charities' chairman explained. And 200 students showed up at a Harvard rally in solidarity with Berkeley's embattled Free Speech Movement, to hear Arthur MacEwan (then just a former University of Chicago student president) and later Mario Savio himself, expounding a view of the Movement like one that would become increasingly familiar at Harvard--of a struggle of the "managed" against "a managerial tyranny...a knowledge factory...plugged into the military and industrial...
...such victim is Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics, whose contract expires this spring. The department, however, decided last week to rehire MacEwan for next year by offering him a temporary lectureship position. This action averts what had earlier appeared to be a successful purge of all the radicals in the department--with Herbert M. Gintis and Samuel S. Bowles, assistant professors of Economics, departing for UMass and Stephen A. Marglin '59, professor of Economics, taking a sabbatical next year...
...retention of MacEwan is at best a superficial gesture which fails to insure the continuity of teaching and research which the field demands. The department should move quickly to hire new assistant professors to replace those who have left and to search out the most qualified Marxian economists to fill tenured positions at Harvard...
...department decided first of all to rehire Marxist Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics, on a one-year lectureship contract. This action insures that there will be courses in the field next year, staving off the possibility that no one in the Department next fall would be capable of teaching other than neoclassical economics...