Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent change in Social Relations department requirements for under-graduate concentration can only be commended. The new rules will provide the concentrator with a more orderly and worthwhile academic program, as well as increasing the prestige of the deparment...
Potenially the most valuable unifying change is that requiring a full year introductory course, Social Relations 10, for all concentrators. This course, if operated at a higher level of intensity than the present introductory course, can save a great deal of repetition in later course work. The only apparent disadvantage in requiring this course is the probable reduction in the number of non-concentrators taking upper level courses in Social Relation...
...newly required course in methods and the Senior Seminar will also serve to lend continuity to the mass of theory and information that the concentrator in Social Relations encounters. Perhaps though, the most important changes are those making concentration more difficult...
...excessive and ridiculous antipathy against the Social Relations Department and its concentrators by members of other departments, especially the humanities, is certainly in part a defensive romanticization of the values and motives of these fields, but it is a reaction in part rationalized by calling Social Relations a "gut." It is true that the field has not attracted predominantly high caliber students in the past...
There can be no denying this conclusion in the face of increasing monetary outlays and a virtually dry tax base. Added revenue, the Governor maintains, must be found to counter anticipated inflation and to pay for planned and promised expansions in state social services, raises in the pay of government employees, spiraling pension costs, and the liquidation of state bonds with delayed maturation dates. Meanwhile, expanded state aid to cities and towns is urgently needed, he insists, to counter seriously inadequate municipal services and to reduce the tax on real property--currently standing at a per capita level higher than...