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was comparative or derivative rather than imitative. Eaton's sabbatical even reversed the conventional assumptions about influence by examining the imitation and adaptation of American architecture in Europe. 298 On the other hand, not a single sabbatical proposal of that decade addressed the then avant-garde philosophy of postmodernism. This new direction was otherwise bringing fame to alumnus Charles Moore. (The much earlier Michigan graduate Joseph Hudnut is credited with introducing the term "post-modern" to the architectural lexicon by entitling his essay of 1945 "The Post-Modern House."Y 99 For all its rejection of what it considered dogma forcing imitative formalism, Michigan was by no means looking for a curriculum without discipline. In fact, just as the faculty was closing ranks against Miesian pedantry, it was fighting, too, to extend degree requirements into a six-year program which would demand more rather than less. The idea was not new. Faculty had been discussing it since 1957 and watching its implementation elsewhere at over a third of the eighty schools comprising the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. soo The appeal of the new curriculum was its increased emphases upon solid, pre-architecture introductory courses including physics, mathematics, economics, and English; changes in the environment, technology, and building materials; and the integration of these factors into design courses at alllevels. 3째' This proposal, too, was divisive. Those opposed claimed that design in particular, and the humanities more generally, would be diminished. s02 But twenty-four professors in favor of change signed their names to a petition asking Vice President Allan Smith to overrule the dean and other opponents, in order to allow the idea to go forward. "The very principle of faculty self-government is at stake here," they urged heroically. sos Jean-Paul Sartre, Marshall McLuhan, the U.S. Constitution, and the Ten Commandments were all invoked for the sake of an impassioned argument whose issues were not always well-stated.so4 Smith responded charitably that the changing nature of the profession was reason for the faculty's inability to articulate the college's needs with one clear voice.sos He endorsed the six-year program anyway. Along with Michigan's notion of discipline was an internal conformity of its own fashion. Standards were set high for