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PRESIDENT Bok called a seven-hour meeting last week and decided to hand a pink slip to one of his employees. The denial of tenure to Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton may present many complicated and controversial issues--about standards for tenure and the direction of legal scholarship--but mostly it was a personal statement on the work of one scholar at one school. A verdict on whether a woman hired nine years ago with the near guarantee of a permanent position had met the standards of Harvard Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wrong Questions | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

Inevitably, administrators make such a personal evaluation in any tenure case--which mixes the political and the personal, ideology with research. This week's action on the Dalton case--which was based on the written opinions of more than a dozen scholars in her specialty, the personal testimony of four Harvard law professors and the critical judgement of five preeminent legal authorities--is no different...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wrong Questions | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

...unfortunately for Bok and company, Dalton is entitled to another hearing--this time before a government court. Dalton will announce today whether or not she will pursue a suit she filed in November against Harvard; if she does, her case will be the second active gender discrimination case based on a University tenure decision. Hardly something any institution would highlight on its resume...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wrong Questions | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

Alas, all of Bok's deliberations will provide scant help during the trial. The president ignored the most important question he was asked to adjudicate: whether the law faculty discriminated against Dalton on the basis of politics and gender...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wrong Questions | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

...students who support Dalton said yesterdaythat they expected a renewal of protest on campusfor Dalton...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Profs Say Bok's Tenure Denial Ignored Discrimination Issues | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

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