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...Jack R. Stauder, instructor in Anthropology and 148-9's head sectionman, said that he was "not unhappy' with the meeting's results. He added that the CUI probably will modify the Inkeles proposal so that it would not "artificially limit enrollment or lead to more political friction...
...Tuesday--he will ask its members to vote to drop from the department's offerings next year Social Relations 148 and 149, courses with a combined enrollment of over 900 students. The chairman, Roger Brown, has suggested that the leaders of the two courses, Thomas J. Cottle and Jack Stauder, both assistant professors, apply for General Education sponsorship. But this is hardly any solace. Gen Ed Director Edward T. Wilcox refuses to estimate the chances of the courses' approval under his program. The leaders of Soc Rel 148 and 149 do not think the chances are good...
...Jack Stauder and the others teaching Social Relations 148 and 149 believe they have a specific educational task to perform--they are trying to introduce students to a body of specific empirical material, a specific philosophy of social order, a specific politics of social change. This material is rarely presented in Harvard courses, and people want to hear it, enough of them to make 149 the course with the second-largest enrollment of the spring. To teach this material, this philosophy, this brand of sociology, Stauder and the others are running up against certain Harvard conventions on grading, on section...
...Department, then, is extremely serious business. Few courses with such large enrollments have ever been so summarily dropped from the Harvard curriculum. In one sense, if the department does what Roger Brown wants it to do, it will be treading in some rather dangerous territory: the freedom of Jack Stauder, assistant professor of Social Relations and head of the course, to teach what he wants, the way he sees fit within department and University regulations, is an important right. But, perhaps more important, the Social Relations Department, by its action, would be clearly suppressing a particular political point of view...
Roger Brown is correct when he says that Soc Rel 148 and 149 espouse a particular political position. Jack Stauder and the other course leaders will readily admit this. But is this something new and surprising for a Harvard course? What Government course does not espouse a particular political position? What Economics course? What Soc Rel course, even? No one is required to agree with the position, just as no one is required to agree with Walzer's theory of loyalty in Gov 104 or Neustadt's theory of Presidential Power, but the position is presented and backed up with...