Word: patterson
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...time when it is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit junior faculty, we are very happy to get such top people from top universities," acting-Chair Orlando Patterson said in an interview recently...
...more serious level, one joke going around Littauer Center last week--a joke I found apt and that I repeated--was that Davis and Acting Chair of the Sociology Department Orlando Patterson demonstrate the difference between the substantive concerns of Economics, Government and Sociology. We in Economics study markets, prices and individual choices. When graduate students choose not to teach in Economics, we respond by making teaching in Economics more attractive by raising salaries, especially in our key courses, Social Analysis 10 and Economics...
...think that this joke has a strong element of truth at its core. Patterson and Davis use phrases such as "Social Studies teaching...a dead end professionally," "graduate students..[who] become pre-tort coaches rather than apprentice...teachers" and "disloyal," which appear to be veiled and not-so-veiled threats to their graduate students who teach in Social Studies...
...Patterson's memo is disturbing enough by itself. But at least Patterson intended his attack for domestic consumption, and attacked only the Social Studies program, not the group of undergraduates who pursue...
...Davis wanted to vent his anger at the Social Studies committee or express his heartfelt disdain for The Crimson and its decision to print the leaked Patterson memo, he should have done...