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Harvard must be extremely cautious in filling the hole Chafin left behind. The wrong person in the department's top post could easily cause it to stumble in the strides it has made...
Vice President Daniel Steiner '54 made the right first move by appointing University Police Capt. Jack W. Morse, Chafin's second-in-command, as interim security director. Morse is a fine administrator who can keep the department running at a high standard...
Steiner's next step must be to select at least one student representative for the search committee. Associate deans may be excellent assessors of managerial skill, but Chafin's successor will need more than that to do the job well. He'll have to deal with students at least as well as he handles annual budgets and patrol schedules...
...obvious choice for a spot on the search committee is a member of the student group that met regularly with Chafin to discuss security issues. Any one of them would be able to raise student concerns in the selection process...
...worthy goal the search committee should consider is replacing Chafin, a Black, with another minority student director. Boston's deplorable racial climate is well known and, in general, minorities traditionally have been the target of police harassment and violence. The presence of a minority police chief would be a reassurance to the University community that the Harvard department will not engage in such practices...