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...censorship. The motion, sponsored by anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, only talked about free speech to cover his agenda of criticizing pro-Israel bias at the University. Whether or not Matory’s points were valid, his motion was a waste of the Faculty??€™s time, and the debate that followed—which took up much of November’s as well as December’s Faculty meetings—sucked up time that could have been spent discussing more important issues...
...might blame the impotence of the Faculty these past several months on the Faculty Council, which decides determines both meeting dates and agendas. However, these decisions ultimately reflect the entire Faculty??€™s apathy, whose abysmally low attendance characterized the few meetings that were held. The Faculty are entrusted with a tremendous responsibility with the power to vote on all of these issues. If they were willing to commit a few hours every month to issues of such import, there would be no need for quorum to be even as low as one-sixth, let alone one-eighth...
...another instance of the current Faculty??€™s inertia has been its failure to address the shortcomings of FAS Computer Services. A February server failure cut off e-mail access for thousands of students desperate for contact with the rest of the electronic world. Occasional breakdowns, however, are not the greatest problems that plague the FAS e-mail system. As Undergraduate Council (UC) legislation in January sought to address, a troubling rule in the Student Handbook permits the Ad Board to look at students’ e-mails for disciplinary purposes—a clear violation of even...
...Smith intends to requisition some of the College’s choice office space for FAS administrators. Offices that once housed bureaucrats preoccupied with undergraduate matters will instead be the home of the Faculty??€™s apparatchiks. Peer Advising Fellows will have to swipe their ID cards and traipse through the Holyoke Centre’s profane architectural morass before they can file the receipts for their study breaks, but the staff of the Divisional Dean of the Social Sciences may well soon have a priceless view of Harvard Yard...
...Commentators on the state of undergraduate education at Harvard frequently bemoan the slow, sad deterioration of the Faculty??€™s role in governing their ostensible charges. As Masters of Education have replaced Doctors of Philosophy in positions of College governance, the argument goes, Harvard has slowly abdicated its proper place as its students’ matron and guide. Bread and circuses have supplanted education and virtue. The end is nigh...