Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting of the Social Relations Department faculty yesterday postponed indefinitely a vote to approve Soc Rel 148-149 for next year. The action came at a regular meeting to approve courses for next year...
Further meetings on the issue have been scheduled for next Tuesday and Thursday. Roger W. Brown, professor of Social Psychology and chairman of the department, said that a decision on the course's fate may be reached by the end of next week...
Brown refused to predict the chances that the course would receive approval, but Jack R. Stauder '61, instructor in Social Anthropology and instructor for Soc Rel 149, said "Judging from the Soc Rel faculty meeting today, it doesn't sem likely that they will approve Soc Rel 148-149 for next year. Most of the faculty expressed deep political hostility towards the course...
Lipset proposes the establishment of a school of social science in Washington--not only so the professors can study Washington policy-making first-hand but also so the professors can influence the policy-makers first hand. Lipset believes that academic people and government people should develop close personal relationships. He says that professors do not understand political decisions because they are too far away from them: "Much of the academic community is simply in the dark about the reasons for policy that they disagree with Hence, the American academic community feels much more outside of government then do comparable communities...
Lipset notes that there are certain characteristics of universities that get in the way of serious social scientists who are trying to make contacts and learn about government policy. One of these characteristics is students. In Lipset's "University of the United States" the student problem will be taken care of once and for all. This particular Ultimate Solution is one that many faculty members at Harvard and other universities would probably greet enthusiastically: "There is clearly no way to reduce the concerns of existing universities about the possible loss of faculty to a major Washington school. Some...