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...this week the overseers surprised everyone. The board cancelled an April meeting between the visiting committee on the Graduate School of Design (GSD) and members of the school's administration on the grounds that the meeting, and any other such meetings this year, would be "unproductive" and unhelpful...
...stated reason for the cancellation--which effectively means there will be no further reviews of the GSD until next year, when the overseers can appoint a new committee, is that someone leaked a copy of the visiting committee's report to The Crimson last week, "undermining the mutual confidence and trust that must run between the School and the Visiting Committee...
...widely publicized report was highly critical of the GSD, charging that the school suffers from a "drift away from professional competence" and is "out of touch with the best people, and the best work," in the field of design...
Both men are immigrants to the Design School: Kilbridge was a Business School professor before crossing the river to take over the GSD in 1969, and Kain was--and still is--an Economics professor who moved over to Gund Hall...
...this reason, it seems unlikely that Bok's support of Kilbridge or the proposals of the visiting committee will free the GSD from the divisions that have its rating in the same category as New York City bonds...