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...technical victory for the radicals. The Project, funded by the Defense Department, was designed to use computers for basic research into social science methodology. Radicals charged that the product of the computer research would be used for counter-insurgency operations. Liberal members of the Faculty joined the protest. John Womack Jr. '59, assistant professor of History, said, "I suspect that the people getting the most use out of the Project will be the Defense Department, and at this moment in American politics, I don't trust Defense to make the use of it that I would like...
...technical victory for the radicals. The Project, funded by the defense department, was designed to use computers for basic research into social science methodology. Radicals charged that the product of the computer research would be used for counter-insurgency operations. Liberal members of the Faculty joined the protest. John Womack Jr., assistant professor of History, said, "I suspect that the people getting the most use out of the Project will be the Defense Department, and at this moment in American politics, I don't trust Defense to make the use of it that I would like...
...results of the Fall Faculty meetings gave rise to what is now known as the Womack Rule of Faculty ulty politics. (The rule, named after John Womack Jr., professor of History, is an informal measure of the predictability of Faculty votes.) In small Faculty meetings (less than 200 members), conservatives usually win because only the mildly-interested Faculty show up. In medium-sized Faculty meetings (250-350), liberals generally win because the junior Faculty show up. And in large meetings or on mailed ballots which go out to all 700 Faculty members, conservatives win overwhelmingly because the real "back-bench...
...Social Sciences, H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Sciences, and Archie C. Epps, assistant dean of Harvard College, were re-elected. Doris H. Kearns, assistant professor of Government, was elected to replace John Womack Jr., assistant professor of History, who will be on leave next year...
Robert Lowell, Emerson Lecturer on English Literature, and John Womack Jr., assistant professor of History, were also nominated for National Book Awards...