Word: socialize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...controversey over Soc Rel 149. "Radical Perspectives in Social Change." Stauder split the Soc Rel Department over the issues of student sectionmen and course curriculum. With more than 700 students enrolled, his course was one of the most popular last spring. When he felt the course would be compromised this year (by not allowing student sectionmen, for instance). Stauder withdrew his course from the catalog. The same idealism typified his behavior in the bust of University Hall and its aftermath...
...over $100 million which Congress appropriates yearly for NSF, according to Stone, only $15 million goes for social science research, and only $300,000 of that for computer applications in the social sciences. "We need at least a ten-fold increase in computer funds." Stone said...
That increase, as Stone sees it, must come from increasing Congress's appropriations to NSF, rather than from redistribution of the funds which NSF already has. "The NSF has no directive at picking up its social science funds unless Congress tells it to." he said...
...have an education job to do in Congress," Stone added. "We have to educate them to the new magnitude of expenditures needed in the social sciences, as well as to the possible benefits and dangers from social science research...
Harvard and M.I.T. professors and interested people from outside of Cambridge will meet tomorrow to discuss what kind of communication to send to NSF urging it to ask Congress for more money for computer applications in the social sciences. Congress cannot appropriate extra money unless NSF specifically requests...