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...fact conservative, their effect will probably be only to slow legal innovation. It is far from certain that Nixon, even if he tried, could swing the court in the direction he wanted. Justices often disappoint Presidents. "You shoot an arrow into a far-distant future when you appoint a Justice," says Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel. "And not the man himself can tell you what he will think about some of the problems that he will face...
...Rosovsky Committee report, which was adopted by the faculty on February 11, and widely hailed in the Times and elsewhere, a search committee to help recruit faculty was set up on March 5, consisting of three faculty members and three black students. This does not give them power to appoint tenure professors, however. By long-standing Harvard practice, tenure appointments to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are made by the President and Fellows only after detailed consideration and approval by an ad hoc committee to study the merits of each proposed tenure appointee. Traditionally, the ad hoc committee, appointed...
Laird is expected soon to appoint an unprecedented official commission, including people from outside the Pentagon, to review the strategic priorities for the next few decades. To forestall any doubts about the commission's findings, the chairmanship will probably go to a prominent outsider, perhaps a journalist. Any new Administration could be expected to take at least a perfunctory reappraisal of the nation's military posture. Under attack, Nixon's men seem to be taking seriously the need for a genuine and comprehensive review...
Beyond this, there are some very good pictures and diagrams and copies of "Liberated Documents," as they are called in revolutionary jargon. One exchange is interesting. Ray Mungo, a first-year graduate student last year and the radical former editor of the B.U. News, asked Dean Ford "to appoint a faculty committee. . .to investigate this issue and to raise at the faculty meeting the question of whether ROTC ought not now, many years overdue, be eliminated from Harvard curriculum altogether." Dean Glimp, who knows all about young Mungo, wrote a memorandum of advice to Dean Ford: "I'm virtually sure...
Edward S. Mason, acting dean of the Faculty, will appoint Rosovsky's successor. Mason said yesterday that he hopes to make the appointment in the next few days...