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...more likely to depart. Five occupants of the bench are over 70 and two, William Brennan, 75, and Thurgood Marshall, 72, are reportedly in less than robust health. President Reagan now has an unexpectedly early opportunity to begin his oft-promised ideological remolding of the court. His main criterion for candidates is clearly known, said White House Spokesman Larry Speaks, " He will not seek only candidates who necessarily agree with him on every position, but rather those who share one key view, the role of the courts is to interpret the law, not to enact new law by judicial fiat...
...engages in affirmative action. They have a very high sense of themselves setting a standard of excellence--and anything that breaks that standard they won't discuss." She adds of many department members, who initiate the tenure process with their deliberations. "They argue that academic excellence is the only criterion for tenure. Things like role models and general contributions to the intellectual community are not what they see as valid." Randolph notes that though "we like to think service to the community is important... it's not going to have any importance when it comes to tenure. There is something...
Another female professor concurs, saying that many professors "like their colleagues to be as much like themselves as possible, including gender." Others say male professors put a premium on intra department compatibility as a criterion and often view female professors as harder to get along with, as "difficult colleagues." Women are also more likely to be perceived as "risks"--and, as one female professor says. "Harvard would rather not take in people who may be stupendous than run the risk of making errors." She adds that for departments that have no women, there are probably "about two or three very...
There are also problems of equity and information. Someone will have to program the computers and decide what criterion is "best." Fuller suggests polling the population to decide policy. He wants to measure the "ultra-ultra-ultra-high frequency electromagnetic field" of all concerned individuals since humans give off fields alternating between positive and negative. Thus one could determine, literally, whether people feel positively about an option. His explanation is faulted. Since it appears one cold alter the readings by producing artificial fields, thus changing the national opinion...
...policy does not assign more weight to any particular criterion, but states that if a tenure candidate falls short of excellence in an area the candidate should demonstrate "excellence in one activity and substantial strength in the other...