Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring 1976 production of the tales of Hartman began with the April 1972 report of the GSD's Academic Policy Committee, a five-member panel that had studied the affair for six months. The committee's work was almost entirely founded on the three-year-plus investigation of yet another panel of five non-GSD faculty, the Hartman Review Committee. However, the report of the policy committee, which the panel has never released publicly, takes a markedly more lenient approach than its predecessor. The critical comment in the first study either is excluded altogether or fails to find...
UNFORTUNATELY, the long-awaited and self-interestedly roseate report of the policy committee is not the only new stain on the GSD's record in this affair. The GSD faculty, meeting last week with only 25 voting members present (one over the quorum requirement), added a few blotches...
First, the motion to delay passed by only a one-vote margin, in spite of its support from Hartman, who, while anxious to resolve the affair, required more time to prepare a response to the policy panel's report. As he said in a statement to the faculty,"... I have invested far too much time and energy in the appeal to allow it to end in an overly hasty, procedurally defective fashion..." The narrowness of the vote must be taken as a regrettable indication of a desire to be rid of the affair, not to resolve it equitably...
...wrong for several reasons. First, while Hartman will not be permitted to attend, the faculty members charged with wrongdoing may do so. Thus they will have not only the advantage of stating their case directly to the faculty but also of voting on the GSD's resolution of the affair. For example, GSD Dean Maurice D. Kilbridge, who was involved in the Hartman controversy in 1969-70, attended last week's meeting and spoke against giving the extra time requested by Hartman. Even more seriously, senior faculty in Hartman's department--City and Regional Planning--who only partially cooperated with...
...doubt naive to expect the faculty to reverse its decision now. But the GSD must remember that if it continues to handle the Hartman affair with an eye towards expediency and not toward justice it will only further sully its name. For Hartman has made it clear that if the school refuses to scrutinize its past actions seriously, he will bring his case to President Bok, to the American Association of University Professors and possibly, to the courts...