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...Economics Department's decision last December not to rehire Samuel Bowles and Arthur MacEwen drew a storm of complaints from students who charged that the Department was biased and that they had no voice in their education. Those complaints have gone without any official answer from the Department or the Administration...
...administration rushed to his defense. One wonders where these great defenders of civil liberties have been on so many other occasions. But, then, perhaps they are well aware that the real issue here is one of privilege for themselves and not one of civil liberties for the people. Arthur MacEwen Assistant Prof. of Economics
...remember that of all the people the Fellows invited to speak to them, only two refused. One was Mr. MacEwen, who apparently prefers to convey his opinions of the Center in an atmosphere of confrontation and turmoil. I think that Mr. MacEwen, one of the leaders at the recent demonstration and at the same time research associate at the Center, could have given the benefit of the doubt to a group of people who for him should at least h?? the merit of being financially independent of the Center's resources...
...Tuesday they passed two ambiguous motions which put them on record- unofficially, of course- against the war. No one cared. Their silence on the strike seemed calculated to divide the community. Buckley and Liller reported the majority sentiments in their own Houses but failed to put them as resolutions. MacEwen and Bowles, the Faculty "radicals," formulated an extreme and doomed set of demands. In the end, by going beyond the House meetings' request for optional exams, their demands added to the dismay and alienation felt by many students...
...central point, let me use this space to fill in the gap. In brief, there isn't any Center line of policy, nor any Center brand of polities. According to your taste, you can try to pin a label on the Center by emphasizing the names of Bowie or MacEwen or Hoffman or Bowles or Huntington. All have taken shelter and sustenance from the Center. But if you tried to pin a common label on any two of them, at least one would chew...