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According to department chairman Robert Putnam, several government professors at one of the department's regular Monday night meetings threatened him with a no confidence vote if the session did not finish in time for the members to watch the Miami-Chicago showdown earlier this season...
...controversies in the government department that The Crimson has not picked up," Putnam said...
...Though Putnam says that the movement was spearheaded by some of the leading scholars of the department (he would not go on the record with their names), no high level academician will confirm Putnam's accusation. In fact, Professor Robert Keohane said that it was Putnam himself who was in the greatest rush to get home that night...
With delicate diplomacy, Putnam may be able to get out of this mess unscathed. But with "a significant sum" riding on the outcome of Sunday's game and saying that he couldn't "imagine anything in the Government Department that could get me up from the game," Putnam is clearly not taking things seriously enough...
...Unlike Putnam, Dean of Students Archie Epps, speaking for his family, said that football is simply "not our game" and added that he might watch the Super Bowl only "if I'm in town...