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...mail from The Crimson detailing the site’s failure to attribute quotations, Franklin M. Steen, the director of computer services for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), said Friday evening that “we’ve taken the site down and we will fix it, put the attributions on there, and get the proper permissions.” One day later, the site was still up and running, although it was taken down early Sunday...
WISHR’s fix for this “problem” is as startling as the problem itself: WISHR policy committee co-chairs Tracy E. Nowski ’07 and Patricia Li ’07 suggested special optional sections just for female students. Why? If, as Summers’ critics have so vehemently argued, there are no innate differences between men’s and women’s respective aptitudes in the sciences, there should be no need for such special classes. WISHR’s only possible defense is some claim to differences...
...must continue to work together… we cannot emerge divided.” Based on their unequivocal rhetoric and the record faculty turnout at the meeting, it seems that the Faculty has sent its message, and its message has been heard. Now, it is time to fix the rifts and move forward...
This process must eventually involve exploration of other solutions to institutional communication problems. One possible fix would be the establishment of a faculty advocate—a single person or a small committee of respected professors from across the departmental spectrum. Unlike the Dean of the Faculty, such an advocate would not participate in funding, salary, and tenure decisions and would be solely focused on the Faculty-administration relationship. Of course, such a proposal would require extensive input from both sides, especially in light of the response to Knowles’ somewhat similar, but last-minute proposal...
...task forces, committees, small group meetings, and even Faculty meetings in the world will not completely fix this complex problem. The Harvard College Curricular Review, for instance, was filled with faculty on different committees. Still, many complained about a lack of responsiveness from Harvard’s administration. Creating committees and planning future action is no silver bullet...