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...Sociology Department's venomspitting at Social Studies began when an internal memorandum written in December by Orlando Patterson, acting chair of the Sociology Department, was leaked to The Crimson last week. The memo urged Sociology graduate students not to teach courses for Social Studies, and threatened to withhold preference for office space to those who did not have a "healthy predisposition to squash the competition...
Patterson's memo is disturbing enough by itself. But at least Patterson intended his attack for domestic consumption, and attacked only the Social Studies program, not the group of undergraduates who pursue...
...Davis wanted to vent his anger at the Social Studies committee or express his heartfelt disdain for The Crimson and its decision to print the leaked Patterson memo, he should have done...
Publisher Malcolm Forbes, who died at 70 last month, was renowned for extravagant gestures, from hot-air ballooning over China to a $2 million birthday bash in Morocco. Last week Forbes Inc. employees received one last act of largesse from their late boss. In a memo, Forbes' son and successor Steve announced that, in accordance with his father's wishes, all 750 staffers would receive an extra week's pay. Moreover, up to $10,000 in loans from the company to any employee would be forgiven. "As Pop put it, 'Like a lottery, it's pure chance...
...Little Spice Is Nice: Orlando Patterson, who is acting chair of the Sociology Department, has taken a bit of heat since a memo he wrote in December was made public this week. The memo criticized sociology graduate students who were "disloyally" teaching courses in the Social Studies Concentration. Specifically, he referred to the "antiquarian exegesis" used in Social Studies, and discussed how Sociology was involved in a battle "to squash the competition." In a subsequent interview, however, Patterson said he had not meant any insult. "Look what has happened to prose," Patterson complained, saying that his words had been misinterpreted...