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This means you may find some occasional diplomatic motorcade stationed outside your front door. Unfortunately, it also means that VIP guests see your rooms when Harvard decides to show them a typical student lifestyle. Mass Hall residents are rumored to be hand-picked by some mysterious criteria that somehow qualify them as model Harvardians...
...critics--such as some House tutors--still raised concerns that the criteria used for the study might actually mask underlying problems. Because the College's figures measure only large blocking groups, they offer little indication of whether students are forming smaller groups that are ethnically homogeneous...
Goddard says the vendors chosen fit the bank's criteria--a good offer and good credit. Smaller stores looked at the building, he says, but did not make offers...
When the ad hoc committee does meet, no vote is recorded, nor is an explanation of the decision required of its anonymous members. The criteria by which the committee and Rudenstine decide are equally unknown, outside the fact that candidate should be "the leading scholar/teacher available in the field." Although we recognize the awkwardness the committee might face in publicly speaking ill of even an unqualified candidate, it is naive to think that a system which is unaccountable will always be objective...
Second, if the procedure followed in these cases was in fact improper, and a conflict of interest did occur in the ad hoc committee, greater accountability could have prevented a wrong tenure decision. Establishing specific criteria for the selection of a candidate-and requiring that the ad hoc committee justify its recommendation in terms of these criteria--would go a long way to ensure consistency in tenure decisions across departments and to reduce the mystery for junior Faculty facing a tenure decision. Such criteria would also be subject to public debate, giving students the ability to affect a process...