Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Students could pay for guests either on their punch tickets or with meal coupons. Tickets would be valid for Interhouse, in accordance with the regular board contract system. Students would be able to change from one plan to another at the beginning of each term.
The faculty of the Social Relations Department met last night but failed to reach a final decision on a proposal by R. Freed Bales, professor of Social Relations, to make the Social Psychology wing of Soc Rel a separate academic department.
The meeting had been called by George W. Goethals, chairman of the department, to discuss the problems of overcrowding and lack of sufficient funds that have increasingly plagued the department.
The meeting highlighted the period of crisis which the Soc Rel Department has been going through as a result of the department's lack of money to hire additional faculty.
"There are an average of 11 or 12 people in a sophomore tutorial," J. Lawrence Aber '72, a member of the department's Committee of Undergraduate Instruction, said yesterday. "Even junior honors tutorials have five or six students. And there is a real shortage of thesis advisers."