Word: robertses
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Serving as executive director of McGovern's advisory panel on environmental issues, Marc J. Roberts '64, associate professor of Economics, worked with members of McGovern's "issues" staff in assembling and selecting the proposals that went into the statement.
In accordance with Roberts's view that "the environment" is an urban as well as a wilderness issue, the statement gives considerable emphasis to problems of the urban environment, such as the lack of recreational space in and around urban areas, noise pollution, and rat control.
The organization is not working with the faculty on the campaign. "With Marc Roberts and all the senior members of the faculty to write his position papers they don't need us," Dumont said Friday.
Roberts is now working on another white paper for McGovern on the environment.
While not directly connected with preparing McGovern's economics program, Roberts periodically offered advice to McGovern aides working on revising the plan. In an interview last week, Roberts explained why it took so long to revise McGovern's original tax reform plan which came under attack in the middle of...