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...fact, this decision casts doubts on the validity of the Department's judgments on the academic merits of the tenure decisions concerning Arthur MacEwan, Thomas Weisskopf and Herbert Gintis, all of whom have previously been denied appointments. The Department offered Gintis a new non-tenured appointment this year, but that hardly represents an adequate commitment to this field...
...complaint's specific charge was that Samuel S. Bowles, associate professor of Economics, and Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics, were not rehired last December 'solely because their recent research and teaching have been in radical economics...
...dramatic turn-around on Herb Gintis (three years ago his bid for an assistant professorship, though actively supported by students, garnered only two senior faculty votes) is a transparently hypocritical attempt to legitimize the decision not to hire MacEwan and me. And safe, too, for as chairman James Duesenberry pointed out to The Crimson, Gintis was not offered tenure. This can scarcely be viewed as responsive to student needs, though they will benefit greatly if Gintis should decide to accept the offer. Student outrage and the intervention of a few powerful members of the Economics Department with the University administration...
...that I would expect to continue trying should I receive tenure.) Perhaps this is what was meant when during the debate on my rehiring a member of the executive committee commented that I had been "un-cooperative" in the department. I conclude that the decision against me and MacEwan at once reflects the fact that students are excluded from power in the department and is part of an on-going strategy to keep things that...
This, I believe, is why Arthur MacEwan and I were fired...