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