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Levine said that the split developed because of the large size of the Biology Department and the wide spectrum of academic opinions it represents. It had become difficult to reach a consensus within the department on undergraduate teaching, research, and Faculty appointments, Levine said.
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.
The Cambridge City Council could elect Councilor Thomas Coates the first black mayor of Cambridge when balloting for the office resumes on Monday.
Coates and Thomas Mahoney, a humanities professor at M. I. T., each received three of the five votes required for election on the first two ballots last Monday. Incumbent mayor Walter Sullivan, the top vote-getter in last November's City Council election, received two votes on each ballot.