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Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Relations, said yesterday that the Federal Court ruling against de facto segregation in Springfield schools would be a "powerful precedent" for a similar lawsuit in Boston...
...Springfield ruling was influenced by Pettigrew, who had testified in the case last fall. "Admittedly, much of the damage done to the Negro is a function of our whole society," he said. "But the schools are at least in part responsible, and must try to counteract society's harmful effects...
Civil rights may become the subject of a new Gen Ed course next year. Tentative ideas for such a course are being discussed by Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, Stanley N. Kats '55, assistant professor of History, and Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology...
...course would probably bring an end to Social Relations 134, Pettigrew's course in race relations. "I hope to replace my present course with something like this," Pettigrew said...
Something similar to Pettigrew's "rocks" effect had been a central tenet of Goldwater's conservative thesis long before he won the nomination. It was the Senator's contention that a majority of American voters are in his sense of the world, conservatives. This did not show up in the election returns, he said, because conservatives stayed away from the polls when both parties nominated liberal candidates...