Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues, although some students either did not support one of the issues, or felt less strongly about one than another. "Sure, I'm for divestiture, but I don't know that much about the Afro-Am Department," one student says. "Maybe it would work better as a committee, like Social Studies--I don't know...
After Mitchell's tenure, John R. Meyer, president of the bureau from 1967 to 1977, extended the range of the NBER's research from simply empirical studies to areas that include more social concerns such as the economy of the family and income distribution. But the federal government itself now produces the statistics the bureau pioneered. And under Feldstein, who took office in spring of 1977, "The nature of the bureau has changed to more theory instead of statistics and number games," Takatoshi Ito, a research assistant, says...
...Pellechio is one of two full-time staff members hired to do his own research. "You hope you're right and that your results might be useful." Pellechio says, "but you can't go on the assumption that they will be used." In his study of the effect of social security on retirement, he notes that a "retirement effect" induces people to retire early or work less to receive more benefits. He says that, although there is a lot of concern about how social security should be financed, "if social security induces people to retire early, it's sort...
Some of the criticism leveled at the assembly may stem from a certain lack of focus in assembly activities. The projects undertaken this year ranged from poll-taking--a function many assembly members say helped to establish the assembly's credibility in the eyes of administrators--to social directing. Many of the assembly's activities over the year have been directed toward prying open the governing structure of the University. The assembly has sponsored open meetings with President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, and Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies...
...assembly also acted as a social organizer, sponsoring a number of dances and parties, including the Boston-Boston disco dance, where administrators and assembly members locked horns over the assembly's right to sponsor such a schoolwide dance. Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said the assembly should have asked permission before planning the party, and expressed concern over possible injuries and University liability. Assembly members retorted they were not responsible to the University. Out of this controversy grew the assembly resolution to seek provisional recognition from Harvard. Assembly members also plan to rent a train to take Harvard...