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Whatever plans the committee arrives at will have to pass several hurdles before they can be enacted. They will have to be approved at least by the sociology faculty, the Soc Rel faculty (whose departmental meetings now include ten voting graduate students), and the Faculty of A??s and Sciences...
Alex A Inkeles professor of Sociology and one of the leaders of the movement for a new department, said that the new committee probably would not try to draft a master plan for reorganization of the entire Soc Rel department. He noted that there is a critical distinction between such a master plan and one "which would take care of the prospects of sociology, but which would be thoroughly discussed with the other people in Social Relations...
Eaglesfield explained that graduate students in sociology feel their contacts with students and faculty in the other Soc Rel disciplines will be hurt by the establishment of a separate sociology department. He added that "the whole situation is still very unclear...
...clear what the sentiments of the other concerned groups are at this point. One member of the Soc Rel faculty said that most faculty members seem either in favor of the split or ambivalent about it. but there has been no official attempt to gauge faculty opinion...
...anyone polled undergraduate opinion. Head tutor S. Franklin Sampson said that many of them "certainly would want as flexible an undergraduate program as Soc Rel now offers: that is, some intellectually justified combinatory program." A subcommittee of the Committee on Undergraduate Instruction, an important departmental policy committee which Sampson heads, is planning to poll undergraduate concentrators on the issue soon...