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...this last provision that drew the greatest number of comments at October's Faculty meeting. Professors Riesman and Albritton suggested that a student should be able to fulfill his requirements at the upper level without becoming involved in a sequence...
...Sociology Chairman John R. Seeley. A sociologist can command $100 a day as a consultant to industry, up to $90 a day as adviser to such federal agencies as the National Institutes of Health, CIA, Census Bureau, State Department, Office of Economic Opportunity, and Office of Education. Sociologist David Riesman (The Lonely Crowd) left Chicago for Harvard in 1958, not for money ("Any time I'm hard up I can give a lecture somewhere"), but because he was offered a special chair that would permit him to teach undergraduates without restrictions. Demographers are in big demand...
Dirty Hands. Why such new success for sociologists? "This is a complicated society with a lot of problems around, and there's a demand for people who are trying to understand them," explains Harvard Sociologist Talcott Parsons. Another reason, says Riesman, is that "the bloom of psychoanalysis is off"; people's problems often have to be related to conditions that lie beyond their family situations. The new drives against poverty, urban blight and crime have also increased the demand for sociologists who, as George Washington University Vice President Jack Brown says, "want to get out in the field...
According to Riesman, the council may also look into ways of expanding programs which permit college students to serve in the Corps before they graduate...
...Riesman has worked with the Peace Corps for several years. He went to Bogota, Columbia, last fall to meet with a group of volunteers and discuss problems confronting them...