Word: professors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motion-introduced by Kenneth Arrow, professor of Economics-which the Faculty adopted provides that the 18 members of the council will be elected under a Proportional Representation (PR) system. In order to give minority candidates a better chance of election, PR systems generally require that a candidate receive only a quota of votes-less than a majority-in order to win office...
...committee will later devise the exact election system. Christopher A. Sims '63, assistant professor of Economics, moved to strike the Fainsod Committee's recommendations that the council membership be divided equally among the Faculty's three areas-Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences-and that council members serve for three years. The Faculty adjourned before acting on Sims' motion...
Yesterday. Fainsod objected to the citation of other universities "where, we were told, democracy ruled triumphant." proceeded to analyze the other universities, and found their elected bodies and electoral systems not comparable to those proposed by Arrow, Arrow, a former Stanford professor, took issue with Fainsod's view, at least in the case of Stanford, which he said was essentially similar to Harvard...
Another member of the study team is Herold C. Hunt, Charles W. Eliot Professor of Education at the Graduate Schoolof Education. Hunt will enair a board of consultants which includes sociologists and behavioral scientists...
...problem in reaching a decision is the large variety of recommendations being made in the Stauder case. Suggestions have ranged from not rehiring him to making him an assistant professor...