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...advice and support of Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson, Berkowitz appealed using Harvard’s internal grievance procedures. In a formal grievance to Dean Knowles and the elected members of the Docket Committee in early 1999, Berkowitz alleged that four of the five members of the ad hoc committee assembled to advise Rudenstine “showed bias, conflict of interest, or lack of expertise.” Later that year, however, a Harvard investigation found Berkowitz’s allegations “clearly without merit.” Berkowitz spent over a year wrangling with...
...dossier eventually finds itself propped in front of an ad hoc committee convened solely to review the application. The committee usually consists of three experts in the field from other universities, two experts from Harvard (ordinarily from within FAS), the Dean of the Faculty, the divisional dean, and the President. For each candidate it typically takes at least two or three weeks to assemble a committee, after which the committee is given more time to review the dossier...
...divisional dean then arranges for several departmental “witnesses” familiar with the nominee’s work to come before the committee individually. Although the committee questions the witnesses and assesses the value of the nominee’s field, a peculiar aspect of this ad hoc committee is that no votes are taken throughout the process. The committee is essentially just an advisory group to the President, who alone makes the final decision...
...others, like the scrawny, white, and heavily tattooed “Mr. Cool Ice,” there is a simpler reason. They don’t want to appear pathetic. And at least among those who know what Craigslist is, admitting posting or responding to an ad on Craigslist is tantamount to branding yourself as a failure at life...
...that dozens of them claim to be tired of, meeting people on their own and charming them with their wit (44 posts), intelligence (545), or quality of being “hottt” (2). Whenever I want to tell friends or roommates about a particularly humorous ad I’ve discovered, I must first weigh my options. Is it worth admitting that I read Craigslist? That I read Craigslist more religiously than I practice my religion, because there are no two-hour-long church services at 1 a.m. daily, at least not in my time zone...