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Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government, says that when he first encountered Harvard as a graduate student in the '50s it was a serene place: he saw no widespread student dissatisfaction, but rather a "world of younger faculty and graduate students, politically and intellectually very exciting." With the advent of the mid-'60s, however, that serenity disappeared. "That world hadn't changed." Walzer recalls. "What had changed was the war and general politicization of life that flooded into the University and ran up against a fairly rigid and not terribly sensitive administrative structure...
...committee will hire two assistant professors for next year, one of whom will take Auspitz's place as head tutor. Walzer said...
...ments. Walzer said such an appointment would be unlikely because Auspitz has never taught a course in either department...
...would just like to extend a heart-felt word of thanks to Professors Walzer, Nolan, Cudjoe, Skocpol, Higonnet, et al. for their eloquent and principled stands at Tuesday's Faculty meeting. I have spent nearly four years at Harvard becoming ever-more discouraged by the University's perpetual abdication of political and moral responsibility in its affairs, from its derisive treatment of the Afro-American Department to its equally disreputable labor relations with its own workers. President Bok's letter struck me as the crowning blow of morally-myopic ivory-towerism...
...will gradually lose the special intensity that has characterized our intellectual life in the last century," Walzer said. "Everywhere we go we are outsiders. What is it inside that sustains us?" he asked...