Word: patterson
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...when Sorensen returns from Sweden this September to reclaim the departmental reigns from Acting Chair Orlando Patterson, he will have to take on the emotional and professional scars of the last year...
...dispute between the two programs was Patterson to graduate students in December asking them to teach in the department rather than in other programs. The letter, once leaked to The Crimson, spurred a heated exchange by several of Harvard's senior scholars, turning a minor dialogue about the nature of departmental "loyalty" into a more complicated and controversial academic debate...
...Patterson and Sociology Head Tutor James A. Davis argued that Social Studies studied classical Western social theorists in a vacuum, without regard for contemporary issues. At the same time, some Social Studies affiliates defended their approach against what they saw as an overly quantitative emphasis in recent Sociology appointments...
After the dispute reached the pages of the national media, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence--responding to demands by Social Studies Chair David S. Landes--eventually issued a public statement disassociating himself from Patterson's criticism of the inter-disciplinary program...
...said students were angry about a slew of recent 5-4 high court decisions, which marked a major shift in the court's posture towards personal liberties and civil rights. Among the cases they cited were Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, which allowed greater restriction of abortion rights, and Patterson v. McClean Credit Union, which limited the scope of the 1866 Civil Rights...