"I do believe we didn't get one application from Sociology graduate students to teach in Social Studies next year," Landes says. "That's going to be their loss."
Despite the greater number of graduate students who have committed themselves to teaching Sociology courses next year, Patterson says he continues to have concerns about the methodology used in Social Studies.
"There are intellectual differences," Patterson says. "It's not an attack on teaching social thought but on their approach to it."
And even as he distances himself from Patterson's remarks about a Social Studies curriculum engaged in "antiquarian exigesis," Sorensen defends what he sees as the acting chair's good intentions.
"I don't think Orlando Patterson meant to change anything about the relationship between Sociology and Social Studies," Sorensen says.
Although Landes reports a decline in Sociology graduate student applications to his interdisciplinary, honors-only program, Sorensen says emphasizing "loyalty" to the discipline was not meant to discourage interaction between the two departments.
"It wasn't intended to change the proportion of Sociology graduate students in Social Studies," Sorensen says.
Yet all the same, according to Landes, this has become one of the lasting effects of the year's controversy. And while Sorensen says he would like to begin fresh in the fall, Landes still maintains that he is pushing for a stronger response from the dean of the Faculty.
In particular, Landes says he finds Patterson's reference to Social Studies as the "graveyard of academic careers" severely troublesome.
"I've written [Spence] a letter on this point," Landes says. "I'll bother Professor Rosovsky with this matter in the fall," referring to new Acting Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky.
But despite continued antagonisms and disagreements, both sides seem to be reaching for a more peaceful future.
"I want to emphasize that I think it's important for Sociology and Social Studies to work together," Landes says. "I'm hoping the fall will be better."