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Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics, said of the appointment, "This is a brilliant selection and will be a terrible blow to Stanford. We're thrilled to have him."
"I had the impression that no one, including me, knew what he was talking about at the Faculty meeting," Schelling says. The group, organized under the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, met for 10 Saturday mornings to educate themselves on the selective service system. Initially, it did not intend...
"We held widely differing views on military and foreign policy and on Vietnam," says Schelling, "and initially we weren't confident we could settle issues as well as raise them."
Schelling organized the group from interested friends in the Economics Department, the Faculty members who first proposed the draft discussion at the December meeting of the Faculty, and one Professor of Law.
In order, however, to reduce reliance on the draft and to spread the opportunities for service as widely20THOMAS C. SCHELLING, professor of Economics and specialist on theory of conflict, organized the 14-member group under the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics.