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Controversies sprang up sporadically this year, arousing emotions in several parts of the University. The most publicized stir arose when the Sociology Department's senior Faculty members voted last fall not to recommend Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, for a tenured position. Those who voted against Skocpol--whose book, States and Social Revolutions, won one of the profession's highest awards--said they did so on the basis of her academic work. But some members of the department speculated that Skocpol's gender may have had something to do with the decision...
...dropper slips into near-unconsciousness and drops names instinctively without realizing it. (Ringo keeps telling me he's trying to stop but I just don't believe him) Nor do the references make any sense whatsoever: they become for the dropper as (God, I hope things work out for Theda) vital an element of speech as inhaling and exhaling--occurring inexorably and reflexively. (Why won't Woody just realize he's peaked?) This is a horrifying state (I wonder if Marion will ever work again) of affairs because the dropper's speech and thought patterns are rendered virtually...
...OPPOSING FACTIONS in Theda R. Skocpol's grievance against the Sociology Department agree that Dean Rosovsky made a wise decision in advancing her case to the next step in the tenure process, and we concur. Rosovsky was right to accept the unanimous judgment of the three-member Faculty committee investigation the 33-year-old associate professor of Sociology's charges...
Dean Rosovsky's decision last week to form an ad hoc committee to investigate promoting Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, to a tenured position pleased Skocpol, but it did not surprise...
Wilcox's tally counts Social Analysis 10, a year-long introductory Economics course, as two courses: Whelan counts it as a single course. Furthermore, the six courses Wilcox listed include a half-course taught by Theda Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, whose teaching status for next year is uncertain while an ad hoc committee considers her for tenure. Whelan's count did not include the Skocpol course...