Word: patterson
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These academic complaints were not, however, deserving of censure, as Social Studies Chair David S. Landes has proposed. Although Patterson's diatribe was written with all of the charm and insight of a whiny kindergartener, it was well within the boundaries of legitimate academic debate...
...concentrator envy." It doesn't take a social theorist to recognize that some members of the Sociology Department suffer from an acute case of interdepartmental jealousy. Whatever you call it, the recent attacks on the academic legitimacy of Social Studies by Acting Chair of the Sociology Department Orlando Patterson and Professor of Sociology James A. Davis were tasteless and sophomoric...
WHAT does deserve censure are the attacks by the head tutor and the chair of the Sociology Department on Social Studies concentrators and sociology graduate students. Patterson denounced these students as "disloyal" and lacking "a healthy predisposition to squash the competition." In a none-too-subtle warning to graduate students, Davis called teaching in Social Studies "a dead end professionally." These heavy-handed tactics, more than the bickering over methodology, deserve the scrutiny of Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence...
...course, house masters enjoy the same right to free speech as everyone else at Harvard. But Davis can be held accountable professionally for violating the standards of civility that an academic community demands. Then again, Davis and Patterson may have punished themselves enough by publicly exposing their insecurities...
...told [Spence] that I thought that Patterson and [Sociology head Tutor James A.] Davis are behaving in a way that is uprofessional. It's an invitation to acrimony...