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Recent attacks on the 1-1-2 plan do not acknowledge the real issues and are rather unfair to its advocates. First, those who support 1-1-2 have done a thankless service in identifying the particular problems of sophomore year. David Riesman's thoughtful treatment of these in the letter at issue have been totally ignored. Opponents of 1-1-2 need to show that (as I believe) a separate sophomore year would on balance meet these problems no better than the Houses...
...most economical option is obviously not the best reason to adopt it. But in a time of worsening finances, it is imperative and advisable to consider costs and financing in comparing proposals. Thus four year houses might be attractive, but they are fiscally unrealistic as so far presented. Riesman should not be attacked for asserting the unhappy importance of trade-offs and priorities...
...knows how Alexis de Tocqueville would have analyzed the Quad's unpopularity. It is likely that he would have strongly agreed with a letter given to all members of the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life this week by David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, which attributes the Quad's unpopularity to a "tyrannous minority in the Quad...
With the current uncertainty over how to remedy undergraduate housing problems, the question remains as to how influential Riesman's analysis--or Tocqueville's--can be in the face of strong student opposition...
...results visible, hence risky, whereas in the privacy of the classroom, teaching is generally subject to less careful scrutiny. Hence research requires a climate of support from one's departmental colleagues and not only from administrators who may be seeking to lift the level of their institutions. David Riesman...