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While his colleagues at Harvard passively await the outcome of the presidential election, Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of government, actively pursues the votes of New Yorkers in his Senate race with Sen. James L. Buckley (R-N.Y.). Simultaneously with his campaign, Moynihan retains his teaching position and returns to Harvard once a week to teach Social Sciences 115, "Social Science and Social Policy...
...Moynihan's dual role prompted a prominent alumnus of the college, Albert F. Gordon '59, to write two letters of protest to President Bok, which Gordon released to The Crimson on Tuesday. In the letters, Gordon questions "the propriety and even the legality" of Moynihan receiving a salary from Harvard while he campaigns for the Senate...
...little to offer that wasn't commonplace knowledge before," Trivers He explained that his situation at the time was different from Hughes' and Moynihan's. He had been working for five months as an untenured lecturer before he left, and returned to the business school only after the election was over...
Buckley argues that Moynihan "believes in a federal solution for every problem," and that "for the past 25 years we have been witnessing an almost reckless movement of authority away from local communities, where voters and taxpayers have some degree of control over what happens, to Washington." The economy will improve, he says, when federal spending and taxes are brought under sufficient control to encourage private investment. Meanwhile, he favors a number of innovative ideas-like factoring inflation into the income tax code-to protect families of modest means. Says Buckley. "I'm the person looking...
Going into the campaign's final weeks, it appeared that New Yorkers did not quite see the choice in Buckley's terms. Moynihan seemed to be holding on to a modest lead that would allow him to add a new entry to his lengthy...