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...there are the specific questions about the Law School and Dalton's case: Has there been an agreement--"horse-trading" in the words of one law professor--to accept alternately left-leaning and right-leaning scholars? Did the fact that Dalton was a woman affect her chances of winning tenure from a faculty that is more than 90 percent male? The facts need to be unearthed before everyone involved can trust the objectivity of promotion decisions...
...thinks that a stroke of a president's pen could heal the wounds that have developed at the Law School over the years. But a few choice words from Bok could have dealt realistically with the factors that went into the Dalton decision and spurred a long-overdue faculty discussion on tenure...
Instead Bok's decision skirted most of the controversy. Rest assured, though, such questions will not be so easily swept under the rug in the court case. As one professor said after Bok's decision was announced. "I would expect a large percentage of the faculty to testify on [Dalton's] behalf against the University, well over 50 percent...
...hoped only to examine whether Dalton merited tenure--and he went about composing the most impressive panel of legal scholars he could think of to do the job. Ultimately this method of review begs the question. As an assistant professor requesting a promotion after nine years of service, Dalton didn't ask that the most prestigious panel be convened to judge her work, only that she be treated by the same standards of scrutiny that all other candidates received...
...panel didn't deal with discrimination on the faculty, the only question in Dalton's case that really matters. As an employer of thousands, when Bok enters a name on a pink slip, he might as well be sure it's the right...