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With the re-recognition of the department secured last October. the fireworks in Gund Hall seemed to subside a bit. But in the end of November, President Bok recommended the transfer of CRP to the Kennedy School of Government after consulting with Kain, McCue, and Graham T. Allison '62, dean of the K-School, Harry Lirtzman, a first-year student at the GSD, expressed a reaction shared by most, saying "With the appointment of McCue as the new dean, we thought there might be substantial changes in City and Regional Planning but we never thought it would have come...
...says. "We have the feeling that we're getting kicked out. CRP had a much high faculty-to-student component that any other department, and the school needed them to pay for the building. But now they need more space. A lot of students are a bit pissed off." McCue replies, "The decision to move the program was based entirely upon the career interests of the students and the research interests of the faculty...
Even though CRP is moving over to the Kennedy School, this year's first-year students in the department will have the option of receiving their diplomas from the GSD or the Kennedy School. But students admitted to CRP starting next fall will receive Kennedy School degrees. McCue says it's too soon to know whether the absence of an urban planning program at the Design School for the next couple of years will reduce the number of applicants the the GSD. He adds, "My sense is that there will be no problem...
Over the next couple of years, the Design School will develop a new urban planning program, which will include physical planning, regional and natural resources studies and the current Urban Design program, to replace CRP. However, McCue says the GSD will probably not be ready to admit students to the new urban planning program until the fall of 1982. Thus far, the school has had three general faculty meetings to discuss the thrust of the new department. "The object was to get the issues out before us so the faculty could think about them over the summer," McCue says, adding...
...quick as his efforts to cure the CRP problem were, McCue says that the development of a faculty for the new department will probably begin in 1981-82, the year after the establishment of a curriculum. He adds that, logistically, the Design School will not be able to start the new urban planning program until CRP moves out of Gund Hall to facilities at the Kennedy School. And McCue does not expect CRP to be able to move out until 1982, when the Kennedy School finds room for them in their headquarters...