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Thus, Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, points out that the Report does not do an adequate job of proving that Negroes riot because they feel they are being mistreated rather than for other reasons. (In a forthcoming book Banfield seeks to show that Negroes riot "mainly for Fun and Profit"--the title of the chapter dealing with urban disorders). Treating the first theory as self-evident truth can become a rationale for more violence by inferring that Negroes have a perfect right, indeed an obligation to riot, Banfield says...
...everybody at Harvard was surprised. James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, and Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, agreed that the results were predictable. "Every local or state official wants to have a good reason for asking for more federal money for various programs," Banfield said. "Whatever Mayor Lindsay's prior convictions, he needs more federal money." Furthermore,, Banfield said, "it would be impossible for an official to tell his Negro community that the cause of riots are other than racial injustice...
...Report's harshest critics, on the other hand, argue that the Committee should not have been appointed in the first place. "I hope this does not turn out to be a historic event. It can only mark a turn for the worse," Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government said...
...Sleep. A few students complain that the computer is too inflexible a taskmaster. Asked in a programmed geography course how she would use a vacant lot in downtown Chicago, Irvine Drama Student Tana Shattuck proposed a new musical theater for the space. "The computer answered, 'You need more sleep,' " she recalls. "But I wish I could have talked with it about my idea. It was programmed for a certain thing...
However, Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck of Urban Government, attacked the "whole conceptual scheme of translating the Panama situation to Boston. "You don't have to be a left-wing nursemaid," he told his fellow-panelists. He classified the Barrio Group's work as "a fashionable game for certain Harvard students to play." Even Lodge's work warranted his saying that "maybe the Panamanians should be left to figure out their own political destiny...