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...nomination last week of Edward L. Keenan '57, professor of History, to be the new dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) represents a serious error in timing and judgment on the part of Dean Rosovsky and other Harvard administrators who had input into the selection process. Though superficially well-qualified for the job, Keenan continues to serve on the Board of Governors of Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU), the Iranian national university, which is still in its planning stages. Keenan has supported the RSKU project from the start, over the strenous objections of members...
Last week, Keenan announced that he will not resign the RSKU post if the Board of Overseers confirms him as the new GSAS dean. "I don't think the position at RSKU will conflict with my work as graduate school dean. If it does, I'll drop the Iranian post," Keenan said, somewhat short-sightedly. What Keenan fails to realize is that his involvement with the Shah's regime runs in opposition to the spirit of free inquiry on which this University--unlike its Iranian counterpart--was founded...
Twice a week I have an afternoon Government class at 2 Divinity Avenue, and in those last two weeks of March, I missed not a one. This part of the journey--from the Fogg past the GSAS and onto Divinity Ave.--I had affectionately termed Heart Attack Hill. Which is what anyone who saw and knew me got when they spotted my matching tee-shirt, gym shorts and Rene LaCoste sweat socks...
...earlier this year, when an ad hoc committee of minority GSAS students charged that the school's minority recruitment program was a complete failure and recommended wide-reaching changes in the program's structure, the Faculty was willing to take the suggestions seriously...
...students had argued that without such a position, the GSAS had pushed minority student issues onto a back burner. They also suggested that a minority administrator could help minority students once they had enrolled in degree programs...