Richard S. Tilden '71, a concentrator in Soc Rel and a member of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), agreed.

"The only people who want the split are the senior Faculty," Tilden said yesterday. "Everyone else wants an interdisciplinary program."

"The split brings up the whole issue of specialization," Tilden added. "There has to be a place for students who don't want to specialize at the undergraduate level. Either the Soc Rel Department will have to stay big and allow for interdisciplinary works, or the new special concentrations program is going to have to get sufficient funds to allow a lot of students to design more general concentrations."

'A Real Battle'

Tilden added that the CUE was working to keep the department together. "If the department breaks up, and if the interdisciplinary interests of undergraduates are not met, then there's going to be a real battle here," he said.

The issue will come to a head this Wednesday at a departmental meeting called to discuss the split.