Word: torrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the OEB committal hope to increase the importance of their fields in the department. John G. Torrey, professor of Botany and a member of the OEB group, said that Faculty appointments for the past ten years have been heavily concentrated in the fields of developmental and molecular biology, leaving the OEB area underrepresented...
...Torrey said that this difficulty in reaching agreement within the department resulted in few Faculty appointments at the senior level within the past four years...
...Biology concentrators last Spring protested the small number of courses, especially in the organismic, ecological, and environmental areas. Torrey said that the situation was aggravated by the lack of Faculty appointments and by the lack of concern for those areas...
...Difference of opinion in the Biology Department antedates the protest last Spring. In 1967 a group split off from the Biology Department to form the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. "This is a continuation of that Faculty unrest." Torrey said...