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...Social Relations Department will ask his Faculty to take an extremely serious action on Tuesday--he will ask its members to vote to drop from the department's offerings next year Social Relations 148 and 149, courses with a combined enrollment of over 900 students. The chairman, Roger Brown, has suggested that the leaders of the two courses, Thomas J. Cottle and Jack Stauder, both assistant professors, apply for General Education sponsorship. But this is hardly any solace. Gen Ed Director Edward T. Wilcox refuses to estimate the chances of the courses' approval under his program. The leaders...
...whether the chances are good or bad, Roger Brown has distinctly failed to come up with a reason for dropping the courses from his department's rolls. Somehow, Brown thinks the courses "belong better" under Gen Ed--he seems willing to risk killing a highly successful course just to maximize the specificity of departments. And even if we accept this as an admirable goal, Brown will somehow have to account for other courses on social change within his department, courses with a different point of view on social change from 148 and 149. Brown also brings up arguments on "irregular...
...Roger Brown is correct when he says that Soc Rel 148 and 149 espouse a particular political position. Jack Stauder and the other course leaders will readily admit this. But is this something new and surprising for a Harvard course? What Government course does not espouse a particular political position? What Economics course? What Soc Rel course, even? No one is required to agree with the position, just as no one is required to agree with Walzer's theory of loyalty in Gov 104 or Neustadt's theory of Presidential Power, but the position is presented and backed up with...
...Roger Brown thinks someone is unqualified to teach a section, he should be specific about it. If there have been irregularities in grading, he should say what they are. Few members of the Soc Rel Department know the first thing about what happens in the courses. They should visit them before they make this terribly important decision on Tuesday...
...statement, drawn up by several Soc Rel 149 sectionmen after a weekend-long discussion, is a response to the resolution by Roger W. Brown, chairman of the department, to drop the two courses from the Soc Rel curriculum for next year. This is the first year that the two courses have been offered...